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

Wed Oct 10 14:08:20 CEST 2012

2012/10/8 Manuel Hiebel <manuel.mageia at hiebel.eu>
+
+> Le 08/10/2012 15:27, Nicolas Lécureuil a écrit :
+>
+>  Hi,
+>>
+>> is there any plans to add grub2 support ? is there someone already
+>> working on
+>> it ?
+>>
+>> regards,
+>>
+>> Nicolas.
+>>
+>
+> PoK started something in Mandriva with the classical installer, maybe Rosa
+> too.
+>
+Indeed!
+
+While I had hopes of us getting our first beta ready soon, I've decided to
+postpone it, very much due to running late with grub2 stuff, which it some
+of the features that I have on my *MUSTDO* list and I find crucial to have
+ready for deployment in time for a beta candidate.
+So far I've only switched the installer to use grub2 (and unfortunately my
+work on the installer won't be that easy for you to merge and benefit from
+as I've done some heavy work on cleaning up, sanitizing and rewriting the
+tools to create the installer in python, for which the python code is
+rather modest, but this is very much due to heavy work and improvements on
+the distribution core in advance and also tied into various new rpm
+functionality that I've implemented myself and that there's been next to
+zero interest in from anyone at Mageia. So unfortunately I don't see it as
+very realistic to see any of it making it into Mageia, despite the obvious
+mutual benefits, poltics keeps getting in the way..
+
+For ROSA they migrated to grub 2 a somewhat while ago, their work can most
+likely be picked up and more easily be reused by yourself as the required
+changes in drakx has been done already in a drakx branch with relatively
+few changes commited to it, likely making it fairly trivial to merge.
+
+Personally I'm not sure if I'll go with the same approach as ROSA and
+upstream grub encourages by default, but would rather have a grub
+configurantion entry shipped with each kernel package, ie. like a .
+/boot/grub2/cfg.d directory where one could put like
+/boot/grub2/cfg.d/3.4.1-1.4-desktop.grub which houlds the config with
+kernel and initrd images, which gets automatically read by grub without
+having to regenerate whole grub2 configuration each time a new package gets
+installed.
+This would also free one from any special tools and script to handle this
+for each and every kernel as is the situation today..
+This would also be quite distribution neutral as well. :)
+
+I'm not sure of what use this might actually be or even if any at any sense
+for others to try grasp, but I hope to have grub 2 migration more or less
+working in a week or so, I've decided to push a second alpha as soon as I'm
+done with my work on the installer for this round, then hopefully a beta 2
+should be about ready in a couple more weeks or so..
+
+Don't hesitate asking any questions if you have any interest in my work on
+these things. :)
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
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