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So unfortunately I don't see it as +very realistic to see any of it making it into Mageia, despite the obvious +mutual benefits, poltics keeps getting in the way.. + +For ROSA they migrated to grub 2 a somewhat while ago, their work can most +likely be picked up and more easily be reused by yourself as the required +changes in drakx has been done already in a drakx branch with relatively +few changes commited to it, likely making it fairly trivial to merge. + +Personally I'm not sure if I'll go with the same approach as ROSA and +upstream grub encourages by default, but would rather have a grub +configurantion entry shipped with each kernel package, ie. like a . +/boot/grub2/cfg.d directory where one could put like +/boot/grub2/cfg.d/3.4.1-1.4-desktop.grub which houlds the config with +kernel and initrd images, which gets automatically read by grub without +having to regenerate whole grub2 configuration each time a new package gets +installed. +This would also free one from any special tools and script to handle this +for each and every kernel as is the situation today.. +This would also be quite distribution neutral as well. :) + +I'm not sure of what use this might actually be or even if any at any sense +for others to try grasp, but I hope to have grub 2 migration more or less +working in a week or so, I've decided to push a second alpha as soon as I'm +done with my work on the installer for this round, then hopefully a beta 2 +should be about ready in a couple more weeks or so.. + +Don't hesitate asking any questions if you have any interest in my work on +these things. :) + +-- +Regards, +Per Øyvind +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121010/2e45e640/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019268.html">[Mageia-dev] Support of grub2 in the installer/drakboot +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019282.html">[Mageia-dev] Support of grub2 in the installer/drakboot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19281">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19281">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19281">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19281">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |