[Gllug] Pre GRUB error messages

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On 29/10/2010 17:47, John Winters wrote:
>
> That's fine if you're installing grub from scratch.  The practical
> problem for an ordinary Joe User is that grub is already installed and
> whilst it's easy to see how to invoke the --no-floppy option, it's an
> almost insurmountable hurdle to discover what all the other options you
> need to give at the same time are, plus the risk of rendering your
> system un-bootable if you get it wrong.
>
> I've spent a long time reading Grub documentation, and there does seem
> to have been some improvement from Grub1 to Grub2, but I still don't
> feel I understand what's going on or what all the options mean.
>
> John

Is Grub2 therefore such an improvement if it introduces so many complications and risks? I sometimes think the old (modified) maxim "If it ain't broke don't attempt to fix it until you have something better" goes unheeded.

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