[Mageia-dev] [Mageia 2 specifications ] Grub2

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 09:55 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> 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.

Grub 2 is also able to boot ext4 without trouble since several years. So
keeping grub 1 for a while doesn't make sense at all if this is related
to file system.

And grub 2 also support reading grub 1 configuration file since
September 2010.

-- 
Michael Scherer