Grub2 mapping drives

[trilarian]

As far as I am aware apart from not having a Grub shell (the "grub" command in a Linux terminal) most Grub1 commands have the equivalents in Grub2.

It is odd to read that... Case and point, I updated a friends computer over the weekend. Since I don't get by there all that often, he had a wall of upgrades and I missed that it updated grub to grub2. The first time he rebooted grub2 was unable to boot Linux so I went back over. The grub2 rescue shell has to be the worst experience I've had with Linux in the last 10 years. Not in relation to the time required to solve, but that it has been so long since I've been that frustrated with a program's utter lack of functionality and documentation.

Many basic (but REQUIRED) commands from grub are missing or changed - map, root, linux, etc., you lose the functionality of tab to auto complete commands and show * matches, and there is no help file or directive accessible from grub2 prompt.

I was able to google on my phone to determine root was replaced with set root (and 0 = 1 now), map replaced with drivemap, but it claimed linux was replaced with kernel which both were unrecognized commands so it was physically impossible to load his kernel. Luckily I had a debian thumb drive in my pack so was able to boot to that and remove grub2 then restore legacy grub (chroot).

I definitely will not be switching to grub2, ever (unless something hardware wise in the future forces me too). I'll keep a copy to compile if need be, and could care less that my /boot is stuck in ext3 for life.