Inclusion of Grub 2 in FC7 ?

Jerone Young jerone at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 03:04:47 UTC 2007


It is a bit late in the cycle, but how about inclusion of the packages
in the repository as a secondary method. It could then easily (barring
no issues)  probably be made the primary method around FC 8 time
frame.

On 1/20/07, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 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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