GRUB update borks Debian testing

[John McGregor]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> It sounds as though GRUB is something that people probably need to
> understand a bit better, which is mostly a *bad* thing, as it's
> "merely" a detail about booting.
>
> I wonder if there is someone who is relatively expert with GRUB that
> could do a talk?  It may be that there are a lot of details we may
> successfully ignore nearly all the time.  But getting some sense of
> the scope of what to be concerned about seems like a useful idea.
>
> There are times we need more than LILO / SysLinux, but it seems like a
> rather bad thing for GRUB to progress towards being nearly a kernel of
> its own :-(.
>   
This tutorial  on GRUB2 was posted to the Mepis forums recently. It's 
pretty straightforward and easy to follow and should serve in lieu of a 
talk.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
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