[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

Wed Jul 13 09:55:57 CEST 2011

2011/7/13 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
+> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:29:31 +0200, José Jorge <jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
+>
+>> Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 15:12:52, Anne nicolas a écrit :
+>> > Yet another burning subject that needs time to think about it and
+>> > eventually migrate to.
+>> >
+>> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121
+>> >
+>> > Grub 2 is coming now regularly in proposals. What should  we do about it :
+>> > - Stay with Grub 1 - pb ? maintainance ? restrictions ?
+>> > - Switch to Grub 2 : smooth migration, tests, integration...
+>>
+>> SWITCH!
+>>
+>
+> +1
+>
+>> We can switch Cauldron now, to get massive tests, now that KDM knows it.
+>>
+>> I feel it is specially important that drakboot, gdm and kdm work nicely with
+>> it (ie. no regression).
+>>
+>> - Test also multiboot with Ubuntu and Fedora (auto-detection)
+>>
+>> And still keep GRUB1 till Mageia 3, to have a simple go back avalaible for
+>> people who will have problems with GRUB2.
+>
+> What for ? Any day from now everybody will be using btrfs to boot and then
+> GRUB 1 is useless...
+
+How many percent of $ALL is your "everybody"? Most not-so-experienced
+users will not use btrfs until it is the standard filesystem in the
+installer. People who will not install Mageia2 but upgrade Mageia1
+will continue with their current filesystem. There are more reasons to
+keep Grub1 for a while as an option.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+