[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2
JA Magallón
jamagallon at ono.com
Wed Jul 13 00:47:44 CEST 2011
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:29:31 +0200, José Jorge <jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 15:12:52, Anne nicolas a écrit :
> > Yet another burning subject that needs time to think about it and
> > eventually migrate to.
> >
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121
> >
> > Grub 2 is coming now regularly in proposals. What should we do about it :
> > - Stay with Grub 1 - pb ? maintainance ? restrictions ?
> > - Switch to Grub 2 : smooth migration, tests, integration...
>
> SWITCH!
>
+1
> We can switch Cauldron now, to get massive tests, now that KDM knows it.
>
> I feel it is specially important that drakboot, gdm and kdm work nicely with
> it (ie. no regression).
>
> - Test also multiboot with Ubuntu and Fedora (auto-detection)
>
> And still keep GRUB1 till Mageia 3, to have a simple go back avalaible for
> people who will have problems with GRUB2.
What for ? Any day from now everybody will be using btrfs to boot and then
GRUB 1 is useless...
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