Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +1000, Robert S wrote:
> My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all
> of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will
> grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old
> partition scheme?
I'm curious: What are your "required features" regarding boot loaders?
Adding parameters to the linux command line? grub2 allows that, of course.
Anything else?
While it's true that the new grub.cfg is more complex than the old
menu.lst, both are generated automatically, so in practice you don't
have to worry about that. My recommendation: Switch to grub2.
My opinion about GPT is biased because I have only used it on machines
having a Windows install that had to be preserved when installing Debian.
If your machine is Debian-only and you are already using LVM (which I
strongly recommend), I don't see a great practical benefit in terms of
"flexible partitioning".
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