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<B>Dexter Morgan</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 13 10:04:29 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michael scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
><i> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:12:52PM +0200, Anne nicolas wrote:
</I>>><i> Yet another burning subject that needs time to think about it and
</I>>><i> eventually migrate to.
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</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121</A>
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</I>>><i> Grub 2 is coming now regularly in proposals. What should  we do about it :
</I>>><i> - Stay with Grub 1 - pb ? maintainance ? restrictions ?
</I>>><i> - Switch to Grub 2 : smooth migration, tests, integration...
</I>>><i> - another alternative ?
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</I>>><i> As usual, comments, proposals...
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</I>><i> I think we should offer support for it, ie package, patch the tools
</I>><i> ( given the fact that 5 people are ready to do the switch, I guess they are
</I>><i> all eager to help on creating a proper package ).
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</I>><i> But not do a change in the default before Mageia 3. While Grub 2 is working
</I>><i> fine ( I use it since 3 years ), there was people complaining about this on ubuntu ( because
</I>><i> this changed their habits, because the documentation was sparse ) to warrant
</I>><i> not rushing the change. We value quality, and so we can offer grub2 as a option,
</I>><i> and make sure it got enough test, even by people on the stable release before deciding.
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</I>><i> IE, without any test, we should not change, so I would set a deadline to have grub2
</I>><i> ready befre saying "we switch".
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</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Michael Scherer
</I>><i> People that want grub 2 should be able to do it like those that use lilo.
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i agree with this:
mageia 2 : Add support of grub2 in mageia 2
mageia 3 : Enable it by default but still provide grub 14 support for
people prefering it
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