On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:34:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I >> > don't recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to >> > install GRUB into a partition instead the MBR :-? >> >> "I'm demonizing them" should've been "I'm NOT demonizing them"... >> >> I have no idea why the grub developers have decided to label the >> installation to a PBR a bad thing given that it works just as well (or >> as badly, depending on your point of view) with grub2 as grub1. > > Section 3.4 of > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > > discusses the issues and offers a recommendation.
Which completely differs from their last doc: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively > Also, message #16 at > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542424 > > touches on the reason why there is now a more visible warning. He! I have to solidarize with the bug reporter >:-) > > With grub-legacy it's exactly the same. We just decided to make > > it more clear in grub2 that blocklists aren't that great. So finally it discloses as a simple "recommendation". Fine then. The warning also states that using blocklists is the only way in some disk layouts. > The proposal to introduce the warning may be seen here: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00004.html *** This patch improves error messages in grub-setup, and adds a few warnings when requested to install in odd layouts. *** I wonder what they consider an "odd layout". Four primary partitions and the bootloader installed at the first boot sector of the second partition, for instance? I hope no :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jv93od$gv6$1...@dough.gmane.org
