On 9.7.2014 20:35, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Question 1: has anyone used preupgrade (I used it with fc 17 -> 19, and it pretty much appeared to work, but that was on a couple of worksttions)? Opinions? Question 2: is grub still supported, or is there something that *FORCES* you to use grub2?
mark "grub2 must DIE!"
It doesn't seem to have default packages. But you can always compile your own. Of course when kernel updates you need to update config by hand.
No. I do *not* want to compile my own. We have a very few packages like that, and we do *not* want to be responsible for worrying and tracking security and bugfixes and rebuilding the packages, not when we have 170+ servers and workstations to worry 'bout.
Or you could do sensible thing and learn to change grub2 configs. It wasn't that hard when I had to change some kernel boot parameter.
I've looked at them some, on the one or two fedora boxes here, and on my netbook's ubuntu netbook remix, and I *LOATHE* having to wade through dozens and dozens of lines of code to fix something.
Hey, I thought "declarative" configuration files were the way to go, at least according to this eternal thread... and if old grub.conf isn't that, then your definition is a lot different than mine.
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