KGrubEditor in Kubuntu 10.04

[Goh Lip]

On Friday 08,October,2010 03:46 AM, Steve Morris wrote:
> Also slightly off topic, I am currently using legacy grub in Lucid 10.04
> because, when I installed Lucid from the alternate install cd it said
> that grub2 was beta and should not be installed on a production system
> (hence I haven't) and, with the beta of grub2 in Karmic it would not
> allow the grub boot blocks to be installed to a partition, it would only
> allow the installation to the MBR. Installing to the MBR is useless to
> me as I am using something else as a boot manager, plus for other linux
> o/s's that don't use grub2 Ubuntu's grub2 generated invalid partition
> references for those o/s's. Have these issues been fixed yet?
>
> regards,
> Steve


Hi Steve, I too have my own boot (dedicated grub partition) and I always 
set that to the mbr, never any of the OS grubs. Yes, there is a (severe) 
warning when we try to install grub to a partition, but nevertheless, I 
proceeded and none the worse for it. The warning may be useful for 
people who thought they "should" install to the partition. If you know 
what you are doing, I think it's okay.

Many other distro's still use grub-legacy and in many ways, 
Kubuntu/Ubuntu is ahead of the curve. I find grub2 far far better and 
had converted even my Hardy to it (since scrubbed). But yes, there had 
been many issues with it affecting a small proportion of computers, like 
dell recovery console, raid/lvm (resolved, I think; in the beginning, 
handle this like you would with grub-legacy), but it better to let us 
know what issue you are watching out for.

Regards - Goh Lip