[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

[Dexter Morgan]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:12:52PM +0200, Anne nicolas wrote:
>> 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...
>> - another alternative ?
>>
>> As usual, comments, proposals...
>
> I think we should offer support for it, ie package, patch the tools
> ( given the fact that 5 people are ready to do the switch, I guess they are
> all eager to help on creating a proper package ).
>
> But not do a change in the default before Mageia 3. While Grub 2 is working
> fine ( I use it since 3 years ), there was people complaining about this on ubuntu ( because
> this changed their habits, because the documentation was sparse ) to warrant
> not rushing the change. We value quality, and so we can offer grub2 as a option,
> and make sure it got enough test, even by people on the stable release before deciding.
>
> IE, without any test, we should not change, so I would set a deadline to have grub2
> ready befre saying "we switch".
>
> --
> Michael Scherer
> People that want grub 2 should be able to do it like those that use lilo.
>
>

i agree with this:

mageia 2 :  Add support of grub2 in mageia 2
mageia 3 :  Enable it by default but still provide grub 14 support for
people prefering it