>> Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) > I wouldn't call it a rant. I have nothing personal against grub-pc, > per se. I hope they are eventually successful in their project. > I just think it's too unstable for production use at this time. > You of course are entitled to disagree if you like.
I use grub because it is the default at work and has been for a while - and I would lilo if it were the default. I have been using grub2 since September. I have not used Debian's grub2 but Ubuntu's, Fedora's, and Arch's have been problem free. I have installed it at friends' and even at a company where I was moonlighting (at the insistence of the IT manager and with the proviso that I would replace at the first sign of problems). So a few people having problems with grub2 in testing or unstable does not really make an argument against grub2. >> The OP said that his error was "BIOS Installed Successfully", which >> must mean that his box had a hardware upgrade/change and that could >> easily make any boot loader, linux/unix/windows/apple, lose its >> bearings. > Well, if the OP really was performing a BIOS upgrade, then yes, > you're right of course. But I would think that if the OP really > was performing a BIOS upgrade that he would say so. It seems to > be a very significant and relevant detail. (Then again, you'd be > surprised what people try to hide when they ask for help sometimes.) > I must confess I glossed over that and figured he must have meant > "BIOS data check successful" or something like that. I've never > known a debian upgrade to upgrade the BIOS. And from his description, > the messages only stay on the screen for an instant. He may not > have transcribed it right. But theoretically you're right. > If he really was performing a BIOS upgrade and it didn't go right, > then any boot loader may have trouble booting. This message can also come from adding or changing ram, a hard disk controller, a raid controller... I doubt that it is the result of an apt-get or update-grub command. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org