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Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie
Date 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
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Le 19/07/2017 à 20:33, Felix Miata a écrit :
> 
> Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to
> setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to manually
> maintain.

This is your opinion. I beg to differ. Once you are used to it, manually 
maintaining grub.cfg is rather easy.

> All my PCs have a master boot partition, where Grub Legacy from openSUSE is
> installed. openSUSE's Grub Legacy has been kept adequately maintained for my
> needs, which means EXT4 filesystems are fully supported. OTOH, Debian's Grub
> Legacy is broken WRT EXT4, OK with EXT2/3.

Because the upstream GRUB legacy does not support ext4, not even 
mentioning newer filesystems such as btrfs, or features such as LVM, 
RAID (no, GRUB legacy has no full software RAID support).

It is SUSE which patched its GRUB legacy package to support ext4. IMO, 
it was not the right thing to do. It caused confusion among people (does 
GRUB legacy support ext4 or not ?) and delayed the adoption of GRUB 2.

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Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 11:40 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-19 20:10 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-19 21:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-20 09:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-21 10:20 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 22:30 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:30 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 20:40 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 04:20 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-07-21 10:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:00 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:20 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 08:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 13:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:10 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 15:00 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 19:40 +0200

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