grub2 - why are distro's using it?

craptakular · 17 Jan 2010 at 21:42

Tried Mint 8 - grub2 distroyed my win7 drive.

Tried Sidux - Can't work out how to change the entries.

/Rant

What on earth was wrong with grub1? It's just a boot loader, and grub1 booted my OS just fine....

BigglesPiP · 17 Jan 2010 at 22:10

I actually like GRUB 2.

I use LVM on my EEE, which means using GRUB 1 I always had to have a separate /boot, since FRUB 1 can't live inside LVM. And I'd usually get the size wrong and always have a crash when I upgraded the kernel or installed anything which wanted to `mkinitramfs`.

GRUB 1 could never be made to work inside LVM without breaking backwards compatibility, this is one of the reasons GRUB 2 was made, also similar issues with crypto...

Now I'm using GRUB 2, and have no separate /boot, It's quite happy living in the root directory inside LVM.

craptakular · 18 Jan 2010 at 00:12

How can you edit it though? your not allowed to edit grub.cfg.

Grub2 isn't ready for mainstream use yet was my point.

BigglesPiP · 18 Jan 2010 at 03:24

Oxy said:
How can you edit it though? your not allowed to edit grub.cfg

That's an ubuntu thing, it actually tells you what to do instead if you read the file.

deadite66 · 18 Jan 2010 at 09:12

options in /etc/default/grub

JonJ678 · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:54

If you edit grub.cfg despite the warning it seems to cope until you upgrade.

I don't like it much either, but I'm pretty sure it's just that I'm not used to it yet.

Dj_Jestar · 18 Jan 2010 at 12:36

How the hell does Grub2 destroy partitions, when it does absolutely nothing to partitions?

as root run `fdisk -l` and you'll see your partitions (windows and other) will still be in tact. If they are not, then the Mint installation has, at some point, formatted your drives, or (the more likely option) is that you've not been sensible with the installation.