On 21.07.2011 12:52, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2011/07/21 10:44 (GMT+0530) Yash Jain composed: > >> it is still fine if i can use the legacy GRUB to load kernel 2.6.37 > > The latest releases of openSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva continue to > default to, if not only offer, legacy Grub, meaning choice of > bootloader has little or nothing to do with kernel choice. I wouldn't trust an old bootloader with new filesystems. > Here in this building the only Grub2 installations on the 20+ > multiboot machines hosting over 100 OS installations are those few > installations of various Ubuntu flavors, which in every event are not > installed to any of my MBRs. > Which results in the unreliable and unsecure blocklist installation. GRUB should go to MBR. > Excepting mostly EFI situations, Legacy Grub is still quite usable > with the latest hardware, filesystems and OS versions. Bootloaders > needn't care how many bits the kernels it loads support. Yet discussing GRUB Legacy isn't appropriate on this list.
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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