[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

Sat Jul 16 03:35:35 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 09:55 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Grub 2 is also able to boot ext4 without trouble since several years. So
+keeping grub 1 for a while doesn't make sense at all if this is related
+to file system.
+
+And grub 2 also support reading grub 1 configuration file since
+September 2010.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+