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This article was written in November 2009 and is 5 years old.

afaict, work on grub2 started back in 2004, and a backport patch[1] of the 'paranoid' A20 checking for grub legacy was posted to the bug-grub mailing list back in 2006.

In fact, the very first reply[2] to that patch makes exactly the same point I did above: why not use grub2?

[1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2006-07/msg00015....

[2]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2006-07/msg00025....

The rest of the discussion on the email thread from 2006 on the A20 patch is about whether GRUB 2 is ready for use in production environments, so I am not sure what your point is.

My point wasn't that GRUB 2 did not exist in 2009, but that "Who the hell is still using grub 1?" was not as valid a question then, and is definitely not a reason for you to dismiss the article.

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