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Mastering Grub 2 The Easy Way

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
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If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without much thought going into revamping the core program. Eventually, this lead to a messy patchwork that no one really wanted to maintain. At this point, Grub2 was born. It’s a complete rewrite from the ground up using a completely redesigned structure. This new Grub gives us powerful features like conditional statements (if/then, etc), intelligent upgrades, and some greatly improved graphics.

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Comments (5)

gus3 ·
And this guy is dangerous. His cavalier dispensing of information appears to have little to no real-world experience behind it.

(Yes, I know I just described 82.7% of teh Intarwebs...)
techiem2 ·
82.7%? I think you might be being a little too generous. :P
ABCC ·
Just in case anyone follows TFA's instructions and hoses their pc, I found a good article on the Ubuntu wiki recently explaining how to setup grub2 properly:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

and some documentation on making themes and so on:

http://grub.gibibit.com/



tuxchick ·
So what's wrong with the instructions in the article?
gus3 ·
@tc:

I won't fault him for his Ubuntu-specific instructions, because he does explain why he focuses on Ubuntu. But check the comments. He assumes way too much about the capabilities of an unbootable system, and that's a very real possibility when messing around with the bootloader configuration.

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