Thomas,

thank you for clarification.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 11.07.2012 16:24, schrieb Arvid Warnecke:
> > What I do not understand is how much GRUB legacy is not supported
> > anymore? It won't get removed from the system, but will I have to do any
> > manual steps when updating the kernel or something like that?
> > At the moment I don't see any reason for trying to install GRUB2 again,
> > because last time it failed hard on my MacBook Pro.
> 
> 1) You can't install the grub package anymore, unless you build it from AUR.
> 2) The grub-bios package will install grub2.
> 
<snip>
> 
> In short, unless you choose to install the new grub packages and
> uninstall the legacy one, nothing will happen.
> 
And nothing will break. That's good. Just read today that in GRUB2 they
changed the counting of partitions and that hd(0,0) becomes hd(0,1).
Which is absolutely nuts. Or like lua. ;)

Best,
Arvid

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