[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3

Sun Jan 20 16:36:36 CET 2013

On 19/01/13 11:42, André Salaün wrote:
+
+>
+> So it'is a fud launched by grub2 developpers when they recommend
+> installing it only on the MBR.
+
+No not at all, done that way it is open to the filesystem moving the 
+files and breaking the boot. The same is apparently true in legacy, but 
+it rarely poses a problem.
+
+What I am saying is that I don't see this as a limitation.
+
+If core.img is placed in the filesystem, as is done when our grub2 
+(package) is installed, and if the primary bootloader can read that 
+filesystem (i.e. has the correct modules loaded) then it can find, read 
+and multiboot using that core.img.
+
+See README.Mageia in the grub2 package.
+>
+> Since the apparition of grub2 all that is almost unclear.
+
+Yes - documentation has not been a strong point of grub2 in the past but 
+it has improved dramatically in recent months.
+>
+> Lack of communication or understandability I don't know but the fact is
+> that grub2 is a problem for many users.
+
+Most of those user reports are old - many bugs have been fixed and 
+features have improved recently. Much bad press was caused by a nasty 
+bug in os-prober which broke multi-booting of legacy installations from 
+grub2 - it was fixed in 1.53 which was the version we originally imported.
+
+>
+> If we add EFI UEFI (of course not linux fault) it is a easyless
+> installing one or different Gnu/linux systems than 3 years ago.
+
+True - we do also have a grub2-efi which has had limited testing, 
+however I know nothing about efi :/
+>
+> But perhaps I am a stupid linux user since 13 or 14 years and I should
+> have to  buy Apple product or W8 ;-)
+>
+
+:)
+