On 31 October 2014 16:16:33 WET, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote:

 I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused
 by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause.
 If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the point in
 spending time on this.
 Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears.
 Which is sufficient for me.

My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at 
boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I 
checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at least in 
some cases the old grub does still have a place.

Grub2 can do that in at least three different ways. You can write a complete manual configuration, just like with 0.9,you can put a manual custom configuration in /etc/grub.d or you can put a simple she'll script in that directory that creates menu entries with each set of options for each kernel in /boot.

None of these options are any more complex than creating a grub 0 configuration by hand.
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