FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 13:26 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 19:46 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >The problems is the developers keep blaming the problems 
> >on misconfiguration, when the thing should work.
> 
> 
> I think the problem with your continuing bugs in GRUB come from the fact
> that Grub, in it's current form, isn't actually in active development
> anymore.  If you look at the GNU Grub webpage (
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub), you'll see there are 2 versions: Grub
> Legacy, and Grub2.  To quote from their page:
> 

I noticed that too, but Redhat has a bad habit of reverse 
patching old software rater than updating to the new
version. In most cases it works the same as the new 
version, but is more compatible with the old version.

You are right though, they are still using the depreciated 
version.

> 
> =====================================
> 
> GRUB 2 and GRUB Legacy
> 
> Currently under development, GRUB 2, has replaced what was formerly known
> as GRUB (i.e. version 0.9x), which has, in turn, become GRUB Legacy.
> 
> GRUB 2 aims at merging sources from PUPA in order to create the next
> generation of GNU GRUB. A mailing list and a wiki have been setup for
> discussing the development of GRUB 2.
> 
> GRUB Legacy is no longer being developed. For the differences between GRUB
> Legacy and GRUB 2, please visit their respective pages.
> 
> =====================================
> 
> So, presumably since Grub Legacy is no longer being developed, it probably
> isn't being fixed either.  And, if you notice, the reference to Grub2 is
> that they are *discussing* development of that version.  Which suggests to
> me that *NO* code has been written.
> 
> 
> All that being said, Grub has worked for me, so I expect it's still
> possible to make it work for you.  Perhaps the original developer should
> take BACK the development of Grib, since it seems the GNU folks are only
> working on it in between Hurd programming sessions.