Re: installing/using grub-legacy
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really
> > > exist under those names on the GNU website either or in the
> > > documentation. It is GRUB or GRUB-legacy. People like harking back to a
> > > time long past though.
> >
> > Yes, I do know that - see my first email. But GRUB-PC is also an obsolete
> > name - and at least you understood what I meant by GRUB1 and GRUB2 however
> > incorrect the nomenclature - and I did know it was incorrect/obsolete. I was
> > just trying to be unambiguous. In which I succeeded. Once you just
> > say "GRUB", you have to know to which version of Debian one is referring, to
> > know which GRUB is meant.
>
> It is a courtesy to use the names used by upstream. GRUB has been the
> default bootloader in Debian since Squeeze. How many years is that?
*cough* firefox *cough*
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