On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 06:23:44AM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: [ apologies if this is a repeat posting, but it looks as I sent it from an unsubscribed address ] > > i liked grub legacy. configuration is easier. automating the grub > configuration would have made it even better. i read the manual once > and i was up and running. with grub 2 i had to read the scripts and > the source code to actually figure out what i was doing wrong. grub > has always been hostile to hardening. >
I'm tempted to just say "grub has always been hostile". Legacy never built on pure64. But, I've had to move my old server system to grub2 so that I could upgrade the kernel - /dev/hda became /dev/sda somewhere after 2.6.24, and lilo refused to accept that as a valid option for root= while the old kernel was running on hda. All bootloaders are unpleasant, some of that is from what they have to do. But, grub2 thinks it *has* automated the grub configuration. In my opinion, it's the worst thing about it ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
