[Mageia-dev] Feedback on Mageia 3 beta1

Fri Jan 18 02:00:11 CET 2013

Le 17/01/2013 17:36, Maurice Batey a écrit :
+> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:10:35 +0100, Davy Defaud wrote:
+>
+>> I've also noticed that the installer hasn't automatically proposed GRUB2
+>> as the default bootloader, whereas my root partition wasn't accessible
+>> from GRUB legacy and I had no independent ext3 /boot. Of course, this
+>> shouldn't be a problem if GRUB2 becomes the default bootloader for the
+>> final mga3...
+> Defaulting to GRUB2 would likely confuse many newcomers to Linux, so -
+> at least for the time being - I hope it will not be the default**.
+>
+> Those who *know* that they need GRUB2 would still be able to get it.
+>
+>    (** Except where the installer detects that the machine *must use*
+> GRUB2, which can then be flagged to the user. )
+>
+
+So did the swith from LiLo to GRUB...
+The old GRUB version you still prefer is now called GRUB legacy, I guess
+you understand what that means: no further developement, a dead end !
+GRUB2 is the way to go despite its far more complicated configuration,
+it has really nice modern features. And the decision to use it as the
+default bootloader for Mageia 3 was taken several months ago :
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/FeatureMageia3_Review
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Grub2AsDefault
+