On 29.03.2011 17:58, Chris Murphy wrote: > It is not due to laziness that Red Hat continues to hack GRUB Legacy, even > for EFI support. > > It's very recent that GRUB2 is suitable for production use. Versions prior to 1.97 aren't suitable for anything else than use by a coder. When Red Hat needed EFI support, GRUB2 wasn't in a state to be included in a distro, so they did with what they had at the time. And switching bootloader isn't an easy task. Even if bootloader itself would be written in mathematically proven correct code, you'll still hit problems when you discover bugs in firmwares in question. So distros are reluctant to move to a new codebase
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkoh
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