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Re: [LUG] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Help Please - Debian Lenny Disk

 

On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:19:36 Simon Waters wrote:

> Should that be a question mark?!

No, I was exclaiming on the assumption that "Grub2" is better than "Grub"

> I think for the end user there really 
> is almost zero gain going from Grub-Legacy to Grub2.

Erm, I don't follow this in view of your next comment.

> The changes were made for technical reasons, and practically no work
> goes on in grub-legacy these days, so some day soon you'll buy a
> computer (or phone or whatever) that grub-legacy can't boot for some
> silly reason, and THEN you'll face the "patch grub legacy or make the
> switch dilemma". As such one might as well get comfortable with the new
> beast.

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