Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

A big part of grub is building the configuration, which is done by
scripts that come from the respective distribution. And yes, there are
differences in those scripts.

>
The Debian one messed up a dual-boot set-up on me after an upgrade,

Which upgrade? Did you file a bug? Did you have a backup?

and there was no simple description of manual configuration in the
Grub docs.

Yes, that's a problem with grub: It has evolved to a full, low-level
operating system, and it's almost impossible to use it without relying
on the scripts to build a correct configuration.

I've since replaced Grub2 with the Extlinux bootloader
everywhere (after determining that Grub "Legacy" doesn't work
booting new Linux distros anymore), which doesn't expect you to
rely on flaky scripts to make its equivalent of Grub Legacy's good
old menu.lst.

menu.lst was hard to write as well. The grub2 scripts in Debian have
not failed me (yet), and I have extensively hacked on them. But, otoh,
I avoid dualbooting where I can. And that's not grub's fault.

Greetings
Marc
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