Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 06/11/2015 09:25 AM, Robert S wrote: > Hi. > > We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been > running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We > use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. > We plan to transfer our backup to a l

Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all > of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will > grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old > partition scheme? I'm curious: Wha

Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-10 Thread Robert S
Hi. We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. We plan to transfer our backup to a low-spec machine (Gigabyte Brix with 120G SSD) then d