[Mageia-dev] Grub version

Mon Mar 21 16:26:25 CET 2011

Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 15:02 +0100, Stefano Negro a écrit :
+> 2011/3/21 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>
+> 
+> > Am Montag 21 März 2011, 14:47:34 schrieb Stefano Negro:
+> > > I have seen version 1 in mageia and 2 in ubuntu.
+> > Because Ubuntu has switched to grub2 and Mageia has not.
+> >
+> Ok, but why not give grub 2 only as option, if someone wants to install it.
+
+Because no one did the work. 
+
+This would requires first to do a package ( we do have a old one in
+mandriva for starting, it may requires to clean the patches ), and then
+prepare a script to create the proper bootloader ( as grub 2 is now
+modular and we cannot and do not want to include all module, or the
+bootloader may be too big ). 
+
+This also requires to touch to various stuff like drakboot and so on.
+
+That's not a trivial task.
+
+A bug report already have been opened, if you want to follow the
+progress : 
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416
+
+> In my opinion the compatibility with ubuntu's grub it's important, to give
+> the possibility to try easily what's this group it's doing with such big
+> efforts.
+
+Can you be more explicit about "lack of compatibility" ? AFAIK and at
+least on my laptop, grub 2 is perfectly able to boot a distribution that
+has no specific provision for it ( in my case, a fedora 14 ), provided
+you configure it correctly. 
+
+And usually, for people who want to have multiple distributions, the
+best way is to setup a independent bootloader on the MBR, that in turn
+chainload various distribution  bootloader. 
+
+This way, you benefit from the integration of kernel and bootloader of
+every distribution, and you do not change anything once the distribution
+have been setup. 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+