On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:49 +0200 Dirk <noi...@pwnoogle.com> wrote: > > i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last > stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 > update... after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue > console... >
Here's your first problem: there is no old or new unstable. There is just unstable, enduring through the ages... OK, it's a different unstable every day, but there is no concept of 'version'. It just gets continuously updated. If you have updated it for the first time in many months, yes, there is a chance of failure, as such a large amount of software has changed. If you make use of unstable, you need to update it frequently. I do it nearly every day on my main workstation, but that isn't really necessary. There is no carefully researched and planned one-step upgrade as there is between consecutive stable versions, as a new plan of this kind would have to be created almost hourly. You just take pot luck and fix it if it breaks. You're pioneering the next stable upgrade, and somebody has to be the first to fall down the hidden potholes. As to grub... yes, I know. Nearly all the (Linux) software trouble I had over the course of about five years was due to grub. It has been OK for a couple of years now, and when the grub changes occur in unstable, they do seem to work. The bottom line is that if you run unstable, you take what it throws at you. There is no Windows equivalent: Microsoft wouldn't dare, they don't release anything earlier than their equivalent of frozen testing, and they expect their beta testers to do some work in exchange for their free OS. These beta testers, of course, have no access to the source code, and they make up only a very tiny fraction of Windows users. A much higher percentage of Debian users run testing and/or unstable. If you don't like the heat, there is testing, or even stable if you don't want to do any development work at all. Even testing is a little hairy at the moment, I believe. -- Joe -- 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/20130617192734.0a7ff...@jretrading.com
