Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
At what point do we decide that we're ready to switch over? GRUB 2 still has some missing features (at least missing in regard to what it has said it will include). But from my first test with it here on my x86 box it appears to be functioning just as well as grub legacy did.
Bear in mind that they made last-minute changes prior to the release of grub-1.90 which meant it wouldn't even boot on an x86! Now they're busy working on really important and useful(!) features like playing tunes[0] through the PC speaker and scripting support. In short, I think they've lost sight of the fact that they're developing a bootloader, though there may well be use cases I'm not aware of where scripting and the ability to play music are useful.
It also has an added dependency of LZO, I think, though if that's the price we have to pay to use a maintained package then I obviously don't mind adding it to the book.
Regards, Matt. [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-11/msg00032.html [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2005-10/msg00152.html -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
