Re: grub disaster with FC4 & XFS

[Net Llama! <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/04/2005 09:24 PM, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:09:37PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Except that for grub, you don't just install it once.  Everytime I 
> > upgrade Fedora, it needs to get installed again, and I go through this 
> > fiasco again.  Last night, I was about this -> <- close to just 
> > installing LILO and moving on with my life.
> you could use debian stable like me, then you only upgrade the OS
> every 3 years or so, then grub can pretty much be installed once and
> forgotten about for at least that long (you don't even strictly have
> to upgrade grub on disk when the package or OS is upgraded either).
>
> heh now that I have probably offended just about everyone ill shut up
> now ;-p
heh.  debian stable is about as much of a polar opposite to fedora as 
you can get, other than perhaps some harcore gentoo stuff.
thanks, but i'll stick with fedora.  at least i know that i'll be 
fighting with grub every 6 months  ;)
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