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From: Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us>
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Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:25:45 +0200
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not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:
>> A big part of grub is building the configuration, which is done by
>> scripts that come from the respective distribution. And yes, there are
>> differences in those scripts.
>
>The Debian one messed up a dual-boot set-up on me after an upgrade,

Which upgrade? Did you file a bug? Did you have a backup?

>and there was no simple description of manual configuration in the
>Grub docs.

Yes, that's a problem with grub: It has evolved to a full, low-level
operating system, and it's almost impossible to use it without relying
on the scripts to build a correct configuration.

>I've since replaced Grub2 with the Extlinux bootloader
>everywhere (after determining that Grub "Legacy" doesn't work
>booting new Linux distros anymore), which doesn't expect you to
>rely on flaky scripts to make its equivalent of Grub Legacy's good
>old menu.lst.

menu.lst was hard to write as well. The grub2 scripts in Debian have
not failed me (yet), and I have extensively hacked on them. But, otoh,
I avoid dualbooting where I can. And that's not grub's fault.

Greetings
Marc
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