Grubs really aren't very attractive...

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sun, 4/22/12, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Grubs really aren't very attractive...
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Sunday, April 22, 2012, 9:10 AM
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:53:25 -0600
> (MDT)
> Bodhi Zazen wrote:
> 
> > The default is to install grub2 to the MBR. It will
> detect you OS and allow you to select which OS to boot. the
> grub2 os-prober is much better and, with the complexity of
> configuring grub2, most people go with the defaults.
> 
> The os prober is utterly worthless. 

It finds only windows partitions and restore partitions but not FreeBSD or other OSes, I agree 100%.  

> It hard codes the paths
> to the kernels installed in the other OS which existed at
> the time you installed that instance of grub2. If you
> boot the other OS and get a kernel update, the OS that
> was installed last (and now owns the MBR) knows nothing
> about the new kernel unless I manually run grub2-mkconfig
> again after booting back into that kernel. That is not
> better or simpler.
> 
> If I have a single stand alone grub partition that chain
> loads
> everything else, then each of the other kernels can do
> their updates and manage their own boot loader and
> everyone is happily independent. (Or was till GRUB2 decided
> it was too good to be chainloaded in the ordinary way
> and must use the new and improved multiboot instead).
> -- 

+1000  :)

Regards,


Antonio