On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 19:32:16 James wrote: > What we need is some "dumbed_down" documents for the over 50 crowd, > because, like you, I'm tired of fixing things that were solved, > decades ago.
:-)) > Closely intertwined with grub2 issues are UUIDs, (U)EFI, fstab stratigies, > gpt formating, drives over 2T and file systems; these new bios can > can be issues to how these mechanisms interact. For now, I only use > grub2 with all of these other things being of legacy in nature. My > next goal is the add gpt formatting and BTRFS (which is rapidly stabalizing > imho). After all of that, I'll try some 4-gig (4+?) gig drives > as seting those up most aggressively, is still a black-art, imho. > > PS, your not alone is frustration and less than ideal (er_shit) > configuration experiences..... There was some frustration when grub2 would complain when I tried to install it in a partition boot record, rather than the MBR that *buntu wanted. I do understand though that we can't stay with BIOS for ever. My new rig will have UEFI and SSD because that's where the market it going, but it will definitely *not* have MSWindows 8! Thanks for the link below. I see that there are some alternatives to GRUB and ELILO which I will try out when the time comes. > [1] > http://askubuntu.com/questions/313627/uefi-bootloader-alternative-to-grub -- Regards, Mick
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