[nmglug] Grub2 (ain't too new)

[a_kaluta]

Sam is correct in so far as the installed kernel loads,the rub is in
using the package manager to load suggested updates,which includes a
newer kernel.
Ubuntu 9.10 does not find that newly updated kernel and stops.
Tried several web fixes without success,thus the end run back to the
originally installed kernel.Removing the problem by allowing ubuntu to
recognize the updated kernel was the inspiration for my post. A

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:31 -0700, Sam Noble wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:41 -0800, WA7BSZ wrote:
> > I have seen a couple articles about the new grub, and trouble with
> > it.  
> 
> For the record, grub1 has been deprecated by the grub developers for
> like 5 years or more. So despite me having been a big fan of the legacy
> grub; It's _way_ past due that we start seeing grub2 in distros.
> Also if you read between the lines in A's posts, he's not having any
> trouble at all with grub2, it's very comfortably allowing him to boot a
> known working kernel. (discussion of being Ubuntu's beta testers is
> probably well applicable re: A's problem with that kernel ;) 
> 
> > Anyway I would hope there is an opt for old grub or lilo in 9.10
> > installation, and we will use grub 2 in a couple years when it works? 
> 
> Boot loaders are always scary because we rely so heavily on them working
> (for about 2 seconds a month) but having a bunch of boot loaders on the
> disk (from a distro that's pulling out the gimp "for space reasons")
> doesn't seem very likely. So install time options are probably off the
> table.
> But for what it's worth grub2 can easily chainload grub1, (upgrades in
> at least Debian, set this up by default.) and grub1 (and yes even lilo)
> easily be apt-get installed once the install is done.
> 
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