[NTLUG:Discuss] grub 2

[Ralph Green]

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 18:22 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Can someone give me the "Cliff Notes Version" 
> of what's different between "Legacy grub" and "grub 2"?  Thanks.

Leroy,
 It is just version 2 of GRUB.  The configuration language was
drastically changed.  I have not studied it, but I see two changes that
affect me so far.  The new configuration file is much more complex and
less readable.  I don't know if the second change is due to a GRUB2
change or if it is something Ubuntu did.  Every time the kernel changed
minor version numbers on a system with GRUB1, I had to manually edit the
menu.lst file to change quiet to verbose.  Now, I put the kernel options
I want in /etc/default/grub and they get put in the config file(now
grub.cfg) for me automatically.
 The name of config files vary from distro to distro.  I gave the names
used in Ubuntu, but it worked the same way in other distros.
Good day,
Ralph