Re: grub2 upgrade fail (was Boycott Systemd)

On 23/09/14 11:07, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Antoine Martin <[email protected]> skribis:
>> Now for my anecdotal evidence, which may help explain my position on the
>> subject: in 20 years of Linux, no other system level change has caused
>> me more time wasted than systemd (admitedly, the grub2 "upgrade" comes
>> close), this is both as a developer and as a user.
> I had the advantage of setting up Grub 2 originally as part of an
> Exherbo installation a few years ago, where one was encouraged to do
> it in the simplest possible way. If you do it that way, it’s actually
> like Grub 1 except ever so slightly cleaner. I still do it that way.
"Simple" and the large collection of scripts that is grub2 is not
something I often hear in the same sentence ;)
FWIW: the problem I hit during this particular upgrade was caused by
grub2 being flat out incompatible with the disk geometry found on that
system, when grub1 was not.. I believe this is the ticket for it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737508

I really didn't have time to investigate this problem during the short
planned downtime window.
Thankfully, lilo came to the rescue. Choice is good!
> If you do it like Ubuntu does, heaven help you. :)
:)

Antoine