Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +1000, Robert S wrote: My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old partition scheme? I'm curious: What are your required features regarding boot loaders? Adding parameters to the linux command line? grub2 allows that, of course. Anything else? While it's true that the new grub.cfg is more complex than the old menu.lst, both are generated automatically, so in practice you don't have to worry about that. My recommendation: Switch to grub2. My opinion about GPT is biased because I have only used it on machines having a Windows install that had to be preserved when installing Debian. If your machine is Debian-only and you are already using LVM (which I strongly recommend), I don't see a great practical benefit in terms of flexible partitioning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150611082636.ga21...@cantor.unex.es
Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions
On 06/11/2015 09:25 AM, Robert S wrote: Hi. We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. We plan to transfer our backup to a low-spec machine (Gigabyte Brix with 120G SSD) then do the upgrade. I note that the bootloader debian 7 has recently been upgraded to grub2. This seems to be considerably less transparent than grub-legacy. Also - should I use GPT for our new partitions? This seems to require a small partition at the beginning of the disk, but does not require extended partitions and is more flexible in terms of resizing partitions. My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old partition scheme? Hi Robert, I don't know if you have to keep using grub-legacy, but this is advantages of using GPT: - the partition table has a second copy - if you make bios_boot partition big enough (about 50MB) you can easily migrate your installation from BIOS to EFI. In this case you will have to format BIOS partition with FAT32 and install grub-efi-amd64. HTH Kind regards Georgi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55794e91.90...@oles.biz
Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions
Hi. We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. We plan to transfer our backup to a low-spec machine (Gigabyte Brix with 120G SSD) then do the upgrade. I note that the bootloader debian 7 has recently been upgraded to grub2. This seems to be considerably less transparent than grub-legacy. Also - should I use GPT for our new partitions? This seems to require a small partition at the beginning of the disk, but does not require extended partitions and is more flexible in terms of resizing partitions. My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old partition scheme? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacw2zueou_szoshu3ufww0wxza_ykp4ed60vdwokg0i73_c...@mail.gmail.com
