Re: Grub2 almost does what I want

[Bob Proulx]

Chris Murphy wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Using a newer version would be nice ---- BUT <grin>
> > I'm installing from the Debian Squeeze 8 DVD set because I do not have high 
> > speed internet available.
> > Also it appears that Grub 2 is available only as source. I've not attempted 
> > compile link load … for over 30 years.
> 
> It's strange to me that a September 2012 distribution is using a 2
> year old version of GRUB.

Debian Squeeze 6.0 released on February 6th, 2011.  When it was frozen
prior to release that was the best version available.  The next Debian
stable production release will be Wheezy 7.0 sometime soon and hasn't
released yet.  Debian has been releasing a stable production release
about every two years and then supporting it with security upgrades
for about another eighteen months.  We are approaching the end of the
two year lifecycle of the production stable release and therefore
everything in it is at least two years old.  For people who want
production stable systems it is a good release time cycle.

Bob