Inclusion of Grub 2 in FC7 ?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 21 02:52:55 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:47 -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
> I was wondering how everyone felt about the possibility of including
> Grub 2 in FC7. While it still is in development, it is very much
> functional and does currently work. This would have the potential to
> allow unification of boot loaders across all architecture (PPC & EFI
> Intel boxes come to mind). This may also kick start development on
> Grub 2, so it's not under development forever. The downfall though is
> that it does use a new file format & tools would need to be modified
> to support it.  What does everyone else think?

IMHO, it's entirely too late in the cycle to introduce something like
this.  Especially for all arches.

I'm sure pjones has a much stronger opinion.

josh




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