[Mageia-dev] Support of grub2 in the installer/drakboot

Mon Oct 8 18:42:25 CEST 2012

2012/10/8 Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net>:
+> On 2012-10-08 11:45 (GMT-0300) Luiz Alberto Saba composed:
+>
+>>> is there any plans to add grub2 support ? is there someone already
+>>> working on
+>>> it ?
+>
+>
+>> Fedora 17, openSUSE 12.2 and ubuntu (don't remember the version) are
+>> already using it.
+>
+>
+> openSUSE retains Grub Legacy as an option, which I use on every
+> installation. YaST has yet to be updated to fully manage Grub2
+> configuration. In distros that offer only a choice between Grub2 and no
+> bootloader I choose no bootloader every time. *buntu I quit even
+> experimenting with half because of its Grub2 headaches. Fedora I install
+> with no bootloader, and use Grub Legacy from openSUSE or Knoppix. Grub2 is
+> buggier than stink and far more complicated to maintain and use than Grub
+> Legacy on systems that don't need what Grub2 can do that Grub Legacy can't.
+
+Well, as long as the installer gives me a choice to put the bootloader
+into the root partition I don't mind whether Mageia uses grub-legacy
+or grub2. I'm using chainloader anyway.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+