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perham
March 14th, 2010, 11:56 AM
I've seen like 20 threads about failure to boot or incompatibility of grub2 with windows 7, vista or even XP. it seems that it crashes most of the times, making the system unusable. I had to revert my brother's boot loader to grub legacy, and I myself am using grub legacy too. what was wrong with grub legacy that Ubuntu developers chose grub2 over grub when it doesn't work well?
Bachstelze
March 14th, 2010, 01:32 PM
GRUB .97 is not maintained anymore, which means that if a security vulnerability is discovered, it will not be fixed by the developers.

EDIT: also, GRUB 2 Works For Me™.
Psumi
March 14th, 2010, 01:35 PM
Protip: Don't #ofOSes-boot.

I only use one distro on a machine, and that's fine with me.
alanjackson
March 14th, 2010, 01:59 PM
I have a netbook with XP, Karmic Ubuntu, and Karmic Kubuntu on it. Grub never fails.
dmizer
March 14th, 2010, 04:12 PM
what was wrong with grub legacy that Ubuntu developers chose grub2 over grub [snip]?

Legacy grub can't boot ext4 partitions.
Regenweald
March 14th, 2010, 04:18 PM
<snip>

GRUB 2 Works For Me™.

Same here. Worked dual booting Win7, works dual booting Vista. You guys are doing something wrong.;)
CharlesA
March 14th, 2010, 04:20 PM
Legacy grub can't boot ext4 partitions.

Didn't know that, thanks.


Same here. Worked dual booting Win7, works dual booting Vista. You guys are doing something wrong.;)

I'm tribooting XP, Backtrack4 and Ubuntu 9.10 with no problems. *shrug*
RATM_Owns
March 14th, 2010, 04:34 PM
Legacy grub can't boot ext4 partitions.
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/grub/repos/core-i686/ext4.patch
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/grub/repos/core-x86_64/ext4.patch

?
dmizer
March 14th, 2010, 04:39 PM
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/grub/repos/core-i686/ext4.patch
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/grub/repos/core-x86_64/ext4.patch

?

Right. It has to be patched because:

GRUB .97 is not maintained anymore
dragos240
March 14th, 2010, 05:12 PM
I have grub legacy and I didn't need a patch for my system running on an ext4 system.
chriswyatt
March 14th, 2010, 05:27 PM
GRUB2 boots every time for me, 100%.
dmizer
March 14th, 2010, 06:01 PM
I have grub legacy and I didn't need a patch for my system running on an ext4 system.

Is the boot partition also ext4?
dragos240
March 14th, 2010, 06:30 PM
Is the boot partition also ext4?

Uhhh..... no. That's probably why. But why would you use ext4 for a boot partition anyway?