Re: Debian is the best!
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote:
> >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a
> >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does
> >> *nothing*
> >>
> >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a
> >> kernel..
> >>
> >> That is shit.
> >
> > So... how can we help? Without any more details, we are left in
> > suspense and can only guess...
>
> i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last
> stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 update...
> after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue console...
>
> so i downgraded grub to 1.99 from stable... yesterday i tried again with
> the same results...
>
> i haven't tried installing unstable from scratch yet... but i guess it
> will work then so it would be pointless to do that...
>
> it is bad when linux stops working before the kernel was even loaded...
>
> so i advice to ditch grub in favor of lilo since it does nothing much
> except what it is supposed to do... it doesn't even troll users with a
> worthless rescue console that doesn't rescue shit...
>
The *only* situation I would consider installing lilo instead of grub is when
building an embedded system. lilo is too primitive and too hard to configure,
grub has so many features! I love it!
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