> On February 8, 2015 at 8:06 PM Gravis <ring3k@???> wrote:

> > You spend twenty minutes reviewing docs on which of the many files to
> > put your modifications in and the commands to use, you do it just that
> > way, and it doesn't work.
>
> if it's not working then either documentation is flawed or you are
> doing something wrong. my money is on the latter. sure configuring
> it may be a mess but it works (otherwise it wouldn't be ubiquitous)
> and you also have the option of using a GUI to simplify the process.

My own unhappy experience with GRUB 2 happened when I did a distribution upgrade
which rendered my system unbootable. I had to become a GRUB "expert" to find
out what I could type at the GRUB command line to even start to diagnose what
was wrong.

After a lot of gnashing of teeth, I found out that my MD0 and MD1 raid
configuration was being enumerated by GRUB as MD127 and MD126. But I still
didn't know how to fix it.

Unfortunately, the upgrade was mandatory to fix a fatal flaw in the version of
ecryptfs in the previous version which had destroyed some of my files.

I switched to a different distro to get around this.

Peter Olson