Grub 2 and moved sytem (rant and question)

[Rashkae]

On 10-11-18 03:32 PM, Chris MacDonald wrote:
>
> I use the UUIDs, I find they're easy enough to find out, but I avoid
> grub 2 like the plague; the three machines I have Ubuntu installs on
> and I use on a regular basis all use extlinux instead. I have to
> manually update the configuration file when the kernel is updated, but
> that's not a big deal. By comparison, extlinux is dead easy to
> understand and modify. None of these machines multiboot though so I
> guess my use case is pretty simplistic.
>
> Chris
>
>    

My computer has 7 hard drives, (including 1 raid array and 1 windows 
install.  and I assure you, Grub 2 has been a godsend.  I understand the 
version fatigue and frustration when all your old tricks and processes 
are obsolete,, believe me,, but I painfully remember the old days when I 
had to carefully configure the bios so my linux drive was always "drive 
0", and getting windows to boot involved editing the grub boot stanza at 
boot time to try each drive number 1 at a time until I was able to 
figure out which 'drive' had windows this time around (then having to 
manually fix menu.lst to permanently record the change.

By comparison, Grub 2 always just works right out of the box, and when 
installing adding a new OS, a simple update-grub is all that I need to 
make everything work like magic.. it's a huge improvement, and well 
worth a small learning curve.