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Re: Grub overkill



Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400
>
> John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> > This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I
> > build a Debian or Debian-derivative OS and grub detects other OS it
> > overdetects them. I have a single Slackware partition. Grub always
> > lists this partition from 4 to 6 times and the first listing on the
> > screen doesn't work.  I have no doubt that I can search out the
> > pertinent grub file and delete the extras but I wonder why I have
> > to .
> > --
>
> Try out grub2. The older grub is in legacy mode and basically no new
> development is done there.

grub2 is so totally not recommendable right now. It's not officially released, 
specs might change, documentation is quasi-non-existent.
As mcuh as I'd like to see it on distros as soon as possible. On multi boot 
machines grub is a pain in the ass.


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