Agreed. Config files 100 times bigger and more complicated. Why? Go to it's home page and find a link that says "differences between GRUB Legacy and GRUB" which simply goes to the grub .97 manual which says absolutely nothing about differences between the 2 versions. They really care about their users, that's for sure.

On Debian you usually stick to changing options in /etc/default/grub and don't touch anything in /etc/grub.d.

grub2 is pretty much the textbook definition of "overdesigned." All it has to do is transfer control to the OS... that's it. But somehow it grew code to parse filesystems, set up graphical user interfaces, load modules, and do half a dozen things that it really has no reason to do. Half the time this hairball won't even boot after you change something, because you forgot to run the correct script to refresh the other scripts, or you moved something on the disk.

Just install elilo and enjoy having a system that actually works.

Aye, and now grub2 requires a 1MB partition to boot a GPT labelled disk on a BIOS (non-EFI) system. Well, looks like we're out of primary partitions. Adios swap.

GPT labelled disks don't have a limit on the number of primary partitions

Nice! Didn't know that.