[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/7/13 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
> 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...

How many percent of $ALL is your "everybody"? Most not-so-experienced
users will not use btrfs until it is the standard filesystem in the
installer. People who will not install Mageia2 but upgrade Mageia1
will continue with their current filesystem. There are more reasons to
keep Grub1 for a while as an option.

-- 
wobo