From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RBUES-00077H-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:22:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C835B21C1C4; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA5221C0F0 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qafi31 with SMTP id i31so2605897qaf.40 for ; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:20:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ZRtRN7yHrNjCxcGjim/kDab2jQPF/otfYHHGJnLZS7Q=; b=pGguJ480nnffIgC6IOLaoIV/8/TFWoVHL8bbN/Gh0Z/q39b7OF7ORt0Oy/uhsb7hKa WI+zo6nHtTC4U0XOU3ugAHVwnnoZ4ZU1KdyOOiNnoSPsoZDq/eEK3CMDefbBPEi7XSSU BvHfFiSHEdWcPJMpjKHY+X5LKljaa0XpRPoIc= Received: by 10.68.0.40 with SMTP id 8mr19932666pbb.45.1317831607211; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-69-109-45-146.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [69.109.45.146]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ki1sm9022772pbb.3.2011.10.05.09.20.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:20:07 -0700 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Message-ID: <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E8B0296.8080005@orlitzky.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E8B0296.8080005@orlitzky.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ecfd72db97b56af36ecc6afad70e2b81 On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:56:54AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/04/2011 06:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Oct 4, 2011 5:10 PM, "Neil Bothwick" > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:49:56 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> > >> > Subject line says it pretty well. Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can > >> > you post your experience on the switching process? Was it difficult? > >> > >> I use it on my netbook, which I admittedly don't boot more than a couple > >> of times a month. It's stable, I can't comment on the switching process > >> as I used GRUB2 from the start with this machine, it seemed a good time > >> to get to grips with it. > >> > >> GRUB2 is neither complicated nor difficult, but it is different. If you > >> try to think in terms of legacy GRUB, you will have more problems than if > >> you approach is as learning a new system. > >> > > > > Kind of tangential... > > > > Why does Gentoo still 'standardize' on grub instead of going forward > > with grub2? > > Grub2 is weird (coming from anything that isn't grub2), and if you mess > up the upgrade, you can't boot. > > It's a support nightmare. > Wow - what an improvement. :| Terry