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From: Rural Florida

Registered: 2008-12-12

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Advantages of using grub2

What are the advantages of using grub2 over just grub? Why would I want to upgrade?

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pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: Advantages of using grub2

Without writing what you can find everywhere on the net, grub2 allows some more devices/file systems compared to native grub1. that and you can have a high resolution background if your bios supports it.

But seriously, if you don't have such a device or don't care for a nice background or being bleeding edge (or any of the other grub2 features that I did not mentioned), it's just a boot loader so it shouldn't matter too much. You really only see it for a split second...

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Advantages of using grub2

+1
Does grub1 let you boot into your system?
Case closed.

No need to complicate life for yourself...

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From: Castalia

Registered: 2007-02-02

Posts: 368

Re: Advantages of using grub2

+1
Does grub1 let you boot into your system?
Case closed.

No need to complicate life for yourself...

Go use Slackware

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Advantages of using grub2

I installed grub2 when there was no support for ext4 in grub. That changed. I can still log into my system, so I never messed with it again.

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

Re: Advantages of using grub2

I switched for the cooler graphics.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Advantages of using grub2

I tried to switch but couldn't get the config to work...

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toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: Advantages of using grub2

Last time I tried it rendered my system unbootable and to say documentation was scarce was understatement of the year! Perhaps it is time to give it a second shot...

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From: Rural Florida

Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 298

Re: Advantages of using grub2

Thanks, I read the wiki but it only talked about how to install, not what it did.

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 349

Re: Advantages of using grub2

The coolest thing about Grub2, as far as I'm concerned, is that it supports booting off of software raid natively (and LVM volumes as well, I think), the downside is that there's really not that much detailed documentation available on how to do that(at least at the time I tried it) ... or on Grub2 configuration in general (again, at the time I tried it), I tried to use it when I got some extra hard-drives and began running on Software Raid, but in the end I gave up and went back to Grub, because I already knew how to use it and the work-around's to make Grub boot software raid are really not that bad.  (you just need a separate non-raid or raid 1/boot partition).

I think sometime in the not too distant future (perheps next Sunday, AD) Debian/Ubuntu are switching to Grub2.  I imagine the documentation situation will get better if that happens, and I might try and switch again.  For now, Grub gets the job done for me.

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