grub

[Nils Kassube]

Norman Silverstone wrote without attribution:
> > > If you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, you'll get GRUB2.
> > 
> > No. If you upgrade from 8.04 you keep grub legacy. If you upgrade
> > from 9.10 it depends which grub version you used with 9.10. Even
> > though grub2 is the default for 10.04, the upgrade process will
> > preserve your current grub version. You only get grub2 if you do a
> > fresh install of 9.10 or 10.04 or if you manually upgrade your
> > grub version.
> 
> Now things are getting clearer. I cannot recall when I upgraded to
> 9.10 but, most likely and not knowing any better, I chose to stick
> with Grub1. So, I suppose my choice is either to do a fresh install
> of 10.04 or upgrade to Boot2. What would you do?

I would always try the upgrade first because I had very little problems 
with upgrades until now. OTOH, it seems I was quite lucky because others 
have reported a lot of trouble. Anyway, I would also upgrade to grub2 
after the system upgrade because I prefer the new version. As always, 
YMMV, but if you make a backup of your /boot/grub/menu.lst it shouldn't 
be too difficult to return to grub legacy if you don't like grub2.


Nils