First impressions of GRUB2
If a known computer magazine writes about the new grub2 version, it cannot be that bad at all, isn’t it? True, Grub2 is still unfinished, but it should be already quite useable. So why not giving it a try?
The first steps are quite simple: Unmask the current Live-Ebuild and add the USE-Flag ‘multislot’ to prevent the removal of your current bootloader. You know – if things break, we do need a working bootloader. And there it starts working, the emerge magic, delivering a nice GRUB2 build.
But is it a successful build? Let’s see and kickstart one of the setup scripts for generating a configuration file. But happiness won’t last long: My Root-FS is a BTRFS drive which is unknown to GRUB2 by now, delivering a nice error message. But who cares if he has a proper /boot partition on ext? Why is GRUB2 mocking about that? Damn it!
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