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Re: Legacy GRUB to GRUB2
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: Legacy GRUB to GRUB2 |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:03:14 +0200 |
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On 21.07.2011 12:52, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/07/21 10:44 (GMT+0530) Yash Jain composed:
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>> it is still fine if i can use the legacy GRUB to load kernel 2.6.37
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> The latest releases of openSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva continue to
> default to, if not only offer, legacy Grub, meaning choice of
> bootloader has little or nothing to do with kernel choice.
I wouldn't trust an old bootloader with new filesystems.
> Here in this building the only Grub2 installations on the 20+
> multiboot machines hosting over 100 OS installations are those few
> installations of various Ubuntu flavors, which in every event are not
> installed to any of my MBRs.
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Which results in the unreliable and unsecure blocklist installation.
GRUB should go to MBR.
> Excepting mostly EFI situations, Legacy Grub is still quite usable
> with the latest hardware, filesystems and OS versions. Bootloaders
> needn't care how many bits the kernels it loads support.
Yet discussing GRUB Legacy isn't appropriate on this list.
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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