On 05/20/2015 05:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can >> handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't >> want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going >> to try btrfs (my fingers will learn how to type that one day), and I >> might go for GPT if it's not going to cause a lot of trouble, but I >> really don't want to have to wrestle with grub-2 at the same time. >> Maybe later. >> >> So, GPT with legacy grub, anyone? > It should do, as long as you create the BIOS Boot partition at the start > of the drive. It shouldn't care what the BIOS is trying to load. But if > it's a new system, doesn't it use UEFI? In which case, grubosaurus won't > work but you can avoid GRUB2 by using Gummiboot, which is even simpler > that GRUB<1. > >
I do not find grub2 complicated, although I've never had a setup with LVM or RAID. It's always just been: grub-install --recheck /dev/sda # cosmetic changes to /etc/default/grub like changing the boot delay grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I was raised on grub2, so I guess that probably makes a difference; maybe it was difficult when I first started, but I can't remember. Alec