grub support?

I never said that grub2 was a "huge mess". That was a different poster. Please read more carefully. I do think the transition could have been managed better, though.

> When your distro installs a new kernel, a new entry needs to be generated
> in the boot loader, which is usually done by generating a new
> configuration file from scratch, overwriting the old one. On Ubuntu at
> least, it works that way for both grub legacy and grub2, so there's really
> no difference in that respect

The way grub-legacy works for me on Fedora is that I can edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, and the distribution can also edit that file during software upgrades. I suppose you can argue that having part of a file be auto-generated, and another part be hand edited isn't "clean," but it is simple and it does work pretty well for me. In grub2, obviously, I have to remember not to change that file, because it will be completely destroyed by the auto-generation system.

I guess maybe the biggest benefit of the new multi-file structure will be to people doing package management. For some reason, that isn't mentioned a lot in these discussions.