Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
> This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I 
have grub correctly installed on the partition. 

Install grub to a partition and do something like this:

su
cd
mv /boot/grub grub
cp -r grub /boot
rm -r grub

At this point your system is broken, but it will still boot. A few days to a 
few years from now your system stops booting, what do YOU do now? You go off 
ranting and name calling the devs.

Now, assume that the developers took your advise and let it install without 
warning, what does a sane person do? I would probably reinstall grub and 
forever wonder wtf went wrong.

Thankfully the developers looked out for me and showed me a warning and forced 
me to pay attention to it by requiring the --force option, so when my system 
breaks I'll remember that and know what went wrong (I'll probably forget but 
at least they tried).

There are other ways to break it, like resizing partitions and I believe this 
is also a problem with grub1. If you modify it to install to a partition 
cleanly without blocklists (which is definitely possible) I doubt that they'll 
reject your changes. Plenty of people are willing to complain but nobody's 
willing to do the work.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez