On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Reindl Harald wrote: > so tell me why i do not need GRUB2 for this more than a year? > > 2.6.40.8-4.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 18:17:12 UTC 2011 > > /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,0G 21G 28% / > /dev/md0 ext4 485M 52M 429M 11% /boot > /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 602G 3,0T 17% /mnt/data Presumably because ext4 is backwards compatible to ext3 grub didn't even notice the change... Ubuntu's pages list a number of improvements. I guess I'm not overly bothered about themes and the like, but maybe it does *something* I want. I remember the resistence to GRUB when we were all using LILO. GRUB 2's major improvements over the original GRUB include: Scripting support including conditional statements and functions Dynamic module loading Rescue mode Custom Menus Themes Graphical boot menu support and improved splash capability Boot LiveCD ISO images directly from hard drive New configuration file structure Non-x86 platform support (such as PowerPC) Universal support for UUIDs (not just Ubuntu) jh