Re: GRUB2 Sucks!

[Ken Stump]

No.  I'm not "trolling".  I'm fed up!  And you are incorrect about it being installed in the wrong drive.  Had you read the whole email, I specifically said that I physically removed the internal hard drive.  This was done preciously because GRUB2 does whatever it wants to do, not what people want it to do!

It was after I reinstalled the internal hard disk, and had done an update to the installed Ubuntu 10.10 and rebooting was required that if screwed up my internal hard drive.  It also screwed up a second USB drive that is nothing but a music depository.  So why is it messing with all these other drives?

It's junk.  It never should have been released like this.  In 40+ years of working on computers, I've never seen anything approaching the sloppiness of this boot program.

Sincerely,

Ken

--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:

From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sucks!
To: "Ken Stump" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 10:10 AM

On 28.03.2011 03:20, Ken Stump wrote:
> I don't know who will end up reading this if anyone, but I'm ready to
> throw Ubuntu out in the trash and never look at it again, and it's all
> because of GRUB2 and no alternatives to using it.
>
> I have a system based on Windows XP.  This isn't by choice, but
> because some of proprietary software that won't run on any platform
> and virtual computers have their own set of problems.
>
> I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a USB hard drive, and it has worked fine
> for me.  Then, I got another USB hard drive (larger) and decided to
> install the new and improved Ubuntu 10.10.  Had I known I was going to
> open this can of worms, all due to GRUB2 by the way, I would have left
> that horror in it's bottle.
>
> Every time I do something now, it screws up my internal hard drive,
> and Windows.  Besides that when I try to boot to the USB drive, it
> just puts a flashing marker in the upper left corner and stares at
> me.  It worked okay after two or more weeks of screwing around getting
> it installed in the first place, and that by physically removing my
> internal hard drive from the computer.  Then the first update, and it
> says "System must reboot before changes take effect."  And what
> happens, I can't use ANY hard drive.
>
If you want to troll it's not the place. However your problem is the one
of installing to the wrong drive (you install to internal HD while you
want to install to USB one. Choice where to install is handled by
packaging and you can adjust it with
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc.
BTW similar problem doesn't depend on which bootloader you use.
> Saying this boot loader sucks is being kind.  It's garbage that
> shouldn't even be able to receive "beta" status.  I'm not sure it
> should be labeled "alpha" status!  In any event, Ubuntu is going back
> on the shelf to collect dust, where it should have been ever since
> they made the poor decision to use GRUB 2 exclusively.  I noticed the
> other distros had enough sense not to do this.
>
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko