Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:38:34PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote:
>
>> Everything I learned came from this wiki: http://grub.enbug.org/
>>
>> I'd like to see if we can move away from lilo and towards grub2 before
>> the next release. I have not built grub2 for anything besides x86 /
>> x86_64, but if those other architectures seem stable It might not be a
>> bad idea to use it there either. Comments?
>>
>> -Joe
>>
> A quick look at that wiki suggests that grub2 still lags behind
> legacy-grub in functionality, and no releases since last year. I've
> long since stopped building cvs - trying to follow projects CVS
> without following their mailing lists is a losers' game. But,
> it does mention this year's Summer of Code (e.g. getting it to boot
> from cdrom). What always freaks me out is when instructions talk
> about using a floppy disk - I haven't seen reliable floppy disks for
> about 5 years, and none of my current machines have floppy drives.
>
> People know me as a lilo fan, but if grub2 on x86_64-64 works and
> allows you to edit the command line, it might be worth doing. If
> all goes badly wrong, I can probably boot an existing system from
> a lilo rescue CD;)
>
>
One thing I did neglect to mention is that Grub2 depends on LZO. In
terms of functionality, I don't know how much more we really need. It
can load a linux kernel off of a number of different filesystems, load
an initrd, and the chainloader works now. As for stability, I can't
account for more then I use. I currently have it tested on a x86_64
multilib desktop (nforce 4), a x86_64 pure64 system booting in qemu, and
a x86 hp laptop (ali chipset). Is there any kind of consensus of whether
we should use grub2 in the 3 *86* books?
> I do get concerned when I see that one of the important things
> required is a 'fancy menu interface'.
>
> For powerpc the wiki makes it sound primitive and some way from
> being ready for prime time. In particular, it sounds as if you have
> to boot from an OF prompt (yaboot provides a menu for osx/linux/CD),
> and you need to put the grub files on an hfs filesystem:
>
> |directly next to yaboot and yaboot.conf on the existing "bootloader"
> |partition.
> |
> |Do not delete yaboot. You will need it when something goes wrong and
> |GRUB fails to boot.
>
> For efi on intel mac, I don't have the hardware.
>
Mac's are definitaly something I have no way testing, other then in an
emulator.
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