--- On Sun, 4/22/12, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Grubs really aren't very attractive... > To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
