Does Linux Mint use Grub Legacy or Grub2?
Yousuf Khan
another thing that's bugged me about Ubuntu for a couple of releases is
Grub 2. Because of this, I would have to go back to Ubuntu 9.04 to get
the Grub Legacy installed and then I update towards modern Ubuntu. If I
were to overwrite Ubuntu with Mint 11, would it start me off with Grub
Legacy or Grub2?
Yousuf Khan
Dan C
Grub2.
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John Hasler
> another thing that's bugged me about Ubuntu for a couple of releases
> is Grub 2. Because of this, I would have to go back to Ubuntu 9.04 to
> get the Grub Legacy installed and then I update towards modern Ubuntu.
Can't you just install the grub-legacy package?
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MakeNoAttemptToAdjustYourSet
Grub is DEAD (as it relates to the one you seek being called that).
Grub 2 IS the new grub, and any CURRENT reference to "grub" in a new
package refers to GRUB 2.
"Grub legacy" is the previous grub, and distros use that reference that
way for that reason.
Ubuntu decided to lag because all of their package updates are Ubuntu
tagged, so THEY are the substandard twerps.
So I install BURG (Yes, BURG) because it allows me to do graphical
boots with multiple screen resolutions and screen choices to put behind
my advanced
boot menus with graphical icons for the OSes represented and memtest and
shutdown and reboot.
Stop crying for the old due to familiarity and get with the new and
re-familiarize yourself, because you will have to eventually anyway.
Stop thinking that editing that one file is the manner in which you
make changes.
There are OTHER files that have to be edited to do it the right way.
That is, I am sure, your main problem. You want that old, lazy, single
file edit method of making changes.
I don't think it took me more than a few minutes of reading to learn the
new paradigm and that you do NOT edit that file you think you do to get
changes incorporated.
It really is that simple. Don't be stupid... advance.
J G Miller
[( intr ; followed by at or against ) to complain bitterly or vehemently: to rail against fate]
> So I install BURG (Yes, BURG) because it allows me to do graphical
> boots with multiple screen resolutions and screen choices to put behind
> my advanced
BURG looks really good and has a nice easy to use GUI which keeps noobs
away from the configuration files they so notoriously fear.
> Stop crying for the old due to familiarity and get with the new
Or go back to LILO? ;)
> It really is that simple. Don't be stupid... advance.
Sometimes advancing is stupid though -- Amarok 2, KDE 4, GNOME 3 ...
And a false retreat can sometimes win the battle as Harold Gōdwines
fatally discovered.
TheQuickBrownFox
wrote:
>On Sunday, June 26th, 2011 at 18:26:35h -0700, MakeNoAttemptToAdjustYourSet railed:
>
>[( intr ; followed by at or against ) to complain bitterly or vehemently: to rail against fate]
>
>> So I install BURG (Yes, BURG) because it allows me to do graphical
>> boots with multiple screen resolutions and screen choices to put behind
>> my advanced
>
>BURG looks really good and has a nice easy to use GUI which keeps noobs
>away from the configuration files they so notoriously fear.
No.. You must have gotten trapped by "BURG Manager", which is yet
another dork's add-on of a supposed front end to BURG.
>
><http://www.omgubuntu.co.UK/2010/07/burg-boot-loader-installation-themeing-more-gets-even-easier-with-burg-manager-app/>
>
>> Stop crying for the old due to familiarity and get with the new
>
>Or go back to LILO? ;)
I use XOSL 2 (VERY obscure)(very good)(needs maintenance)
And I put it on my drive, THEN make my Windows, Linux, BeOS, Etc.
partitions.
Whenever one messes up the MBR, I can reset it, no problem.
Windows 7 also has no problem, except when I install a new OS that does
'touch' the drive tables. A simple repair fixes that.
So, all my Linux installs boot to whatever I installed with them.
Fedora boots text basic grub, another boot BURG with graphical boots,
etc.
I had one that booted GRUB 2 early on and saw a graphic fly across the
background while the menu was up, but do not know the things I need to do
to make grub 2 or burg do the same.
If any of you have ever seen G-Force by Sound Spectrum, it is a VERY
good fractal and other graphic generator that DOES allow you to place
your own graphics behind it and float them by as well.
Well worth the cash for the Platinum version.
>
>> It really is that simple. Don't be stupid... advance.
>
>Sometimes advancing is stupid though -- Amarok 2, KDE 4, GNOME 3 ...
>And a false retreat can sometimes win the battle as Harold G?dwines
>fatally discovered.