Re: Grub2 almost does what I want

[Bob Proulx]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> FWIW, I'm already running Wheezy on some of my production
> systems. Most notably, for some of the stuff I'm doing I need the
> Wheezy packages and I decided it was easier to just run Wheezy than
> mix-n-match bits from Wheezy ona Squeeze box. So far I've found very
> few problems.

Right.  And agreed.  But at that point we were talking about Squeeze
6.0 that the original poster is using not Wheezy 7.0.  Squeeze 6.0
couldn't have included the newer grub because of the timing of when it
froze for release.

Bob