On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. > > Hopefully, the status is "we'll stick with grub forever". > The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find > it incredibly inconvenient. I could swear the main > driving force behind grub over lilo was that you didn't > have to run special tools after updating grub, but now > with grub2 there are bits and pieces of grub config > scattered all over the disk and you must run the update > script to put them all together again after you change > something. They should have named it lilo2 :-). :))) To be fair, the difference between grub1/2 and lilo remains that grub1/2 don't update the mbr for every config change but only when they are set up. grub2's update is the equivalent of grubby on Fedora and grub1's update-grub on Debian/Ubuntu. In theory, the only grub2 file that a user needs to edit is "/etc/default/grub" to set grub2's defaults like GRUB_TIMEOUT, etc. In practice, the files in "/etc/grub.d" sometimes have to be edited (or "chmod -x"'d to prevent them from being run by update-grub). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines