GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

Dennis J. dennisml at conversis.de
Wed Jun 10 16:41:55 UTC 2009


On 06/10/2009 06:36 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:07 -0500, King InuYasha wrote:
>
>> Well, the existing GRUB used in distros was declared Legacy a long
>> time ago. GRUB 2 is a rewrite that is supposed to include all the
>> features the various vendors have been patching into GRUB Legacy, as
>> well as being able to support EFI and basically supporting what the
>> Chameleon bootloader does in addition to the GRUB Legacy's support.
>> Though I doubt fake-EFI would be implemented in GRUB 2....
>
> The grub we're already shipping has EFI support.
>
> I have yet to hear of a problem we're actually having that would be
> solved with grub2.

If that's the case then it obviously makes sense to stick with grub 
"legacy" but given it's status who is going to be upstream for this? What I 
fear is a similar situation like we had with rpm where nobody really took 
ownership and vendors carried their own individual patches wich doesn't 
really work well with fedoras "stay close to upstream" mantra.

Regards,
   Dennis




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