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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10
From:       King InuYasha <ngompa13 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-10 16:05:10
Message-ID: 8278b1b0906100905v5ca98822w3f97c0ea553efa71 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Christopher Brown <snecklifter@gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/6/10 King InuYasha <ngompa13@gmail.com>:
>
> > I would like to see GRUB Legacy replaced in Fedora 12 with GRUB 2,
> > especially with a couple odd systems here that don't seem to like GRUB
> > Legacy all that much....
>
> Actually the reverse is true, in that you will find that GRUB 2 will
> support fewer machines than GRUB Legacy. This is why, as the ubuntu
> page quite correctly states, "upgrading a bootloader is at best
> frightening and risky".
>
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While that is true, I have already seen two of my machines unable to boot
through GRUB Legacy that could through GRUB 2.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Christopher Brown <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:snecklifter@gmail.com">snecklifter@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2009/6/10 King InuYasha &lt;<a \
href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>&gt;:<br> <div class="im"><br>
&gt; I would like to see GRUB Legacy replaced in Fedora 12 with GRUB 2,<br>
&gt; especially with a couple odd systems here that don&#39;t seem to like GRUB<br>
&gt; Legacy all that much....<br>
<br>
</div>Actually the reverse is true, in that you will find that GRUB 2 will<br>
support fewer machines than GRUB Legacy. This is why, as the ubuntu<br>
page quite correctly states, &quot;upgrading a bootloader is at best<br>
frightening and risky&quot;.<br>
<br>
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Christopher Brown<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>While that is true, I have already seen two of \
my machines unable to boot through GRUB Legacy that could through GRUB 2.<br>



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