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 1RBj5V-0007dO-Fl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:13:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D320F21C088; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F217F21C066 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C0D9F80477 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:12:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:12:37 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Message-ID: <20111006091237.3c7818e8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet> <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs18 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/QkxObbrwjH7c0YRzL_DSQKS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3c6b6f2d9d6481de419eae985e925afc --Sig_/QkxObbrwjH7c0YRzL_DSQKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 00:18:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I remember things being improved. While I was in my 50s I was > continually faced with youngsters' ideas for improving the company's > methods. Stupid, every one. When challenged, they couldn't say how > their proposed new "solutions" would lead to specified gains by > anybody, but the changes were forced through anyway. This isn't > get-up-and-go; it's I've-got-to-make-my- mark. >=20 > Pathetic. But not comparable. The reasons for the changes in GRUB2 have been given. I may not like how they have implemented everything, splitting the settings between config files in two separate directories means you always look in the wrong place first, but I understand the need for the changes even if I don't need the vast majority of them. Problems with upgrading from GRUB1 to GRUB2 are irrelevant. If you have a working legacy installation, there is absolutely no reason to change beyond curiosity. --=20 Neil Bothwick Barnum was wrong....it's more like every 30 seconds! --Sig_/QkxObbrwjH7c0YRzL_DSQKS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6NYvoACgkQum4al0N1GQOuggCfWF2u3eogBePhfQjIpOf1GVZc Uj4AnAjWpdQcSTxsAcl6kNjGC2Ry/2j8 =HLJ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/QkxObbrwjH7c0YRzL_DSQKS--