Le 19/07/2017 à 20:33, Felix Miata a écrit :
Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to manually maintain.
This is your opinion. I beg to differ. Once you are used to it, manually maintaining grub.cfg is rather easy.
All my PCs have a master boot partition, where Grub Legacy from openSUSE is installed. openSUSE's Grub Legacy has been kept adequately maintained for my needs, which means EXT4 filesystems are fully supported. OTOH, Debian's Grub Legacy is broken WRT EXT4, OK with EXT2/3.
Because the upstream GRUB legacy does not support ext4, not even mentioning newer filesystems such as btrfs, or features such as LVM, RAID (no, GRUB legacy has no full software RAID support).
It is SUSE which patched its GRUB legacy package to support ext4. IMO, it was not the right thing to do. It caused confusion among people (does GRUB legacy support ext4 or not ?) and delayed the adoption of GRUB 2.
