2009/12/8 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>:
The good news is that GRUB2 lifts a whole lot of restrictions. <snip> The bad news is that it's a boot loader. There may be bugs lurking in there. That are tough to track down and leave you with an unbootable system.
Have paid some attention since your message, to GRUB2 as used in Kubuntu, that I was installing on a desktop alongside oS-11.2 for comparative reasons. This might not be a relevant issue, but just in case it matters and helps I'll report it here. Chainloading from oS GRUB "legacy" into Ku's GRUB2 and then booting oS-11.2's kernel did "work" but resulted in only 1 core being used, with oS-11.2 really crawling compared to usual (worse than running single cpu). oS-11.2 - /boot/grub/menu.list entry : # # Rob : 2009/12/10 : Ubuntu 9.10 Entry # title Kubuntu 9.10 - 2.6.31-16-generic kernel (hd0,11)/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JS-75NCB3_WD-WCANKL034520-part13 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a initrd (hd0,11)/initrd-2.6.31-16-generic title Kubuntu GRUB2 rootnoverify (hd0,11) chainloader +1 Ku-9.10's - /boot/grub/grub.cfg menuentry "Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.5-0.1 (on /dev/sda10)" { insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 92d04e50-24f0-4dda-a597-b46297002d65 linux /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JS-75NCB3_WD-WCANKL034520-part10 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500JS-75NCB3_WD-WCANKL034520-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x31a initrd /initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org