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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?



2011/6/24 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>:
> On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well.  But I suspect
>> most people will be content with the simpler configuration options
>> offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub.
>
> That's me! Although I do have a little change made to debian_theme.
>
> Why is it some people dislike GRUB2? My experience isn't great but it
> boots Debian kernels reliably on my machines. Nothing complicated I
> admit, and I'm not overfussed about configuring it to display fancy
> menus. What basic changes to grub.cfg cannot be made from the files in
> /etc?

Multibooting:

It does not recognize Windows partitions correctly.
It becomes crazy with ufs.
Some times it recognize the same partition twice.

It might has been build to work alone, which is not really necessary.

>
> As an aside: Is having 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE' and making the file
> read-only really an invitation to do the opposite?
>
>


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