Grub and Grub2 don't get along?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> It was to static and only worked on PC if i remember right. You don't
> have to compile it, you can still edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg by hand but
> you can also add your options to /etc/grub.d/40_custom and
> /etc/default/grub and it will be added next time the update is run.
> 

I also recall that LILO doesn't allow you to edit anything on the fly.  

But it's been about 8 yrs since I've used lilo.