[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

Wed Jul 13 10:04:29 CEST 2011

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:12:52PM +0200, Anne nicolas wrote:
+>> 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...
+>> - another alternative ?
+>>
+>> As usual, comments, proposals...
+>
+> I think we should offer support for it, ie package, patch the tools
+> ( given the fact that 5 people are ready to do the switch, I guess they are
+> all eager to help on creating a proper package ).
+>
+> But not do a change in the default before Mageia 3. While Grub 2 is working
+> fine ( I use it since 3 years ), there was people complaining about this on ubuntu ( because
+> this changed their habits, because the documentation was sparse ) to warrant
+> not rushing the change. We value quality, and so we can offer grub2 as a option,
+> and make sure it got enough test, even by people on the stable release before deciding.
+>
+> IE, without any test, we should not change, so I would set a deadline to have grub2
+> ready befre saying "we switch".
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+> People that want grub 2 should be able to do it like those that use lilo.
+>
+>
+
+i agree with this:
+
+mageia 2 :  Add support of grub2 in mageia 2
+mageia 3 :  Enable it by default but still provide grub 14 support for
+people prefering it
+