Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, September 13, 2010 08:59 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:50:39 +0800
> Christopher Chan<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> the reluctance to
>> switch to Karmic is partly because of the iffy migration from grub to
>> grub2.
>
> Regular old GRUB was having difficulties (alright, /I/ was having
> difficulties) with my several HD, many OS setup and I had lost a couple
> of my Linuxen.  Therefore, I bit the bullet and upgraded to GRUB2.
> It's the best thing I ever did for my box.  GRUB2 picked up all my
> old installations and allowed me to sort them and recover a lot of hard
> drive space, then just recognized the changes on the next boot.
>
> Sweet.  That's what progress is all about.
>


I did not look seriously before, but does grub2 have serial support? I 
know it does not have PXE or network support. In some ways, grub2 is a 
regression.