GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jun 10 21:17:41 UTC 2009


On Wednesday, June 10 2009, King InuYasha said:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 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.
> 
> EFI support is not the same as fake-EFI.

Erm, the EFI support in our grub today isn't "fake-EFI".

Jeremy




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