On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: > >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a > >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does > >> *nothing* > >> > >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a > >> kernel.. > >> > >> That is shit. > > > > So... how can we help? Without any more details, we are left in > > suspense and can only guess... > > i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last > stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 update... > after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue console... > > so i downgraded grub to 1.99 from stable... yesterday i tried again with > the same results... > > i haven't tried installing unstable from scratch yet... but i guess it > will work then so it would be pointless to do that... > > it is bad when linux stops working before the kernel was even loaded... > > so i advice to ditch grub in favor of lilo since it does nothing much > except what it is supposed to do... it doesn't even troll users with a > worthless rescue console that doesn't rescue shit... >
The *only* situation I would consider installing lilo instead of grub is when building an embedded system. lilo is too primitive and too hard to configure, grub has so many features! I love it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
