Benefit of Grub 2
The other day when compiling a kernel for a friend I had an interesting issue, Grub had been installed on a drive other than the root drive. Installing grub became something of an issue. Even though I ran update-grub after compiling the kernel I could not boot. But instead of an error like ‘grub error 22′ I was given a grub prompt. With that I could set the root drive and say where the kernel image and the initrd was and voila I was in business. Pretty sweet.
Once again a great example of *nix offering people solutions that are meant to work even in the most un-ideal situations. Anyone else have any good Grub 2 experiences?
Further reading: ubuntu community docs on Grub 2
Tags: Application Review, FOSS Love