On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I don't > > recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to install > > GRUB into a partition instead the MBR :-? > > "I'm demonizing them" should've been "I'm NOT demonizing them"... > > I have no idea why the grub developers have decided to label the > installation to a PBR a bad thing given that it works just as well (or > as badly, depending on your point of view) with grub2 as grub1.
Section 3.4 of http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html discusses the issues and offers a recommendation. Also, message #16 at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542424 touches on the reason why there is now a more visible warning. > With grub-legacy it's exactly the same. > We just decided to make it more clear in grub2 that > blocklists aren't that great. The proposal to introduce the warning may be seen here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00004.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120731163401.GZ6660@desktop
