Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2
I'm doing a fresh install of Squeeze RC1 on amd64 from a netinst CD
using the text-based expert installer option. I set up my disks with
software RAID1. When I came to the part of the install to put on GRUB it
displayed the following message:
"GRUB 2 is the next generation of GNU GRUB. It has interesting new
features but is still experimental software. If you choose to install
it, you should be prepared for breakage, and have an idea on how to
recover your system if it becomes unbootable. You're advised not to try
this in production environments." I had a choice of going with GRUB 2
or GRUB Legacy.
I thought that a little odd as I thought GRUB 2 was more established
now, but decided to go with GRUB Legacy to be on the safe side. Alas
GRUB then errored on trying to install, which I tracked down to the
metadata version on software raid now being greater than 0.90 which grub
legacy can't process (so it couldn't see the file system on the raid
volumes). I did a little more searching and it seems like GRUB 2 is the
primary and supported choice for Squeeze, so I think the problem is that
the expert install shouldn't be showing the above message - i.e. the
message is out of date.
Is my assessment correct? Should I file this as a bug report? If so,
what should I file it against?
Regards,
Matt
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