On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:36:04AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I haven't read those FUDs but it's completely true that it's much more > likely to get your box hosed if you install grub2 than any other boot > loader I tried so far. > > There has been no issue with grub legacy for ages (probably due to > lack of any development whatsoever) but there were at least two > different bugs in Debian grub2 packages which would render a box > unbootable by just upgrading grub2. > > The fact is that grub2 is usable for may things but is still under > development and so far is not stable, at least not at the level of > stability users expect from stable or even testing Debian packages. > > I would gladly recommend grub2 rescue disk as a backup solution or > feature preview but grub2 as the primary bootloader is a pain in the > backside.
It is, of course, hardly surprising that we need experience of people running GRUB 2 as their primary boot loader in order to shake this sort of thing out, so I'm comfortable with the fact that we are actually doing this now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
