On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:42:50 +0100 Richard Austin <[email protected]> wrote:
> As Goh Lip said in one of his posts on this subject: Alpha versions > are not for newbies. Exactly why Canonical are shipping Grub 2 when > they know it isn't a full release I don't personally know. They have > their reasons i guess. I haven't had any issues myself with Grub but > then I'm not a newbie. I would be hesitant, however, to point a > newbie at a system where there is a chance it will break. They sure > as hell wont come back to *nix if it does. > I think that since there are issues with Grub it would be a good idea > to move away from it and use something which doesn't have issues. > Moaning at the LUbuntu team does no-one any good, and it really > annoys me when people complain about non-production versions of > software "breaking" - they haven't broken they have bugs which is why > they're in Alpha / Beta releases! If you can't fix it you shouldn't > have been using it - simple huh? > > Rich Richard, some of the reasoning to use grub2 can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 Personally, and on top of these reasons, my take on it is.... o grub-legacy has not been maintained for a long time (5 years?) note others try to fill the void by super grub, etc. o the rescue mode to help boot when parameters are wrong o the setting to (grub) boot by uuid instead of (hd0,x) and /dev/sdax where it will always be wrong with multiple disks o When booting from external disk, the partition will always be (hd0,1) regardless of actual allocation and grub-legacy will fail o modular construct where new innovations/additions need not require the whole grub system be rebuilt o ability to boot iso direct by looping, (useful to test alpha's without installing to hard disk) and other utility disks. o ability to handle raid and lvm, despite initial problems, (grub-legacy and definitely lilo could not.) Richard, even at the introduction of grub2, it is far far superior to grub-legacy, and the only fault is the lack of documentation to assist users. Also many people are already familiar with grub-legacy and the ease to modify menu.lst makes using grub2 a harder task. It is always easier to learn a new task than to unlearn an old one. Since you mentioned you are not a newbie, can you remember using LILO? ;) [roaring laughter] LOL Take care. Regards - Goh Lip -- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
