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 1RB6Pw-0004xP-Fx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:56:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B106D21C29E; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F1D21C28E for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywt2 with SMTP id 2so755714ywt.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:53:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Efaa8Z1gAYZdkRg+6tyVpGYzgRO7dVrV+PtplhNSI9I=; b=P5S63VWKa/GgXR9y1RxIAVSKjdmfwwcB9764k/hOynSRQEqpDOm1NuHo772YEhuFrK e/oT7/BbIkecyB6cjeQPoOB1sDtz6KoR367QhyGlvLrMHEZ+r+RuJ3aZ3lA5rYKNoqWm kz1ByeU+qLpKh4GwooQlXc4vm1NdrTfvgrAjI= Received: by 10.236.197.104 with SMTP id s68mr7431813yhn.20.1317739991389; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-200.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r30sm19823128yhj.20.2011.10.04.07.53.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8B1DD3.7050709@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:53:07 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 00ab514059b85153a836d82c939a93fe Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-10-04, 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. > I've only used it on Ubuntu, and maybe it's just Ubuntu's > implementation -- but it was both complicated and difficult. There > are 10X as many files, and to change anything you edit a whole set of > configuration files and run a utility that generates _another_ set of > configuration files. > > Compared to "vi /boot/grub/menu.lst; reboot", that's complicated. > >> 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. > At first glace, grub2 looks like a minature Unix installation whose > purpose is to boot a bigger Unix installation. It's got it's own init > system and it's own set of init scripts. > Could this fix the mess with /usr and /var having to be on / or a initramfs? Dale :-) :-)