Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32
On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I don't
> > recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to install
> > GRUB into a partition instead the MBR :-?
>
> "I'm demonizing them" should've been "I'm NOT demonizing them"...
>
> I have no idea why the grub developers have decided to label the
> installation to a PBR a bad thing given that it works just as well (or
> as badly, depending on your point of view) with grub2 as grub1.
Section 3.4 of
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
discusses the issues and offers a recommendation. Also, message #16 at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542424
touches on the reason why there is now a more visible warning.
> With grub-legacy it's exactly the same.
> We just decided to make it more clear in grub2 that
> blocklists aren't that great.
The proposal to introduce the warning may be seen here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00004.html
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