On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:16:33PM +1000, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> grub2 doesn't seem to support my current fs (reiser3).
>
> What other such regressions are there?
>
> Is there a wiki page for this transition yet?
I just set up one:
http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Is anybody else using grub2 as a default bootloader today?
A while before the etch release, I migrated all my etch machines to it. I went
back to grub legacy when we decided that grub2 wasn't going to be included in
etch, but it wa
On Monday 30 April 2007 17:57, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > - wrong detection of correct boot device in BIOS
>
> Can you be more specific?
#265228, #317606, #420376 and others
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:02:18PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:59, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
> >> - better codebase;
> >
> > Is grub2 fundamentall
Steve Langasek wrote:
> If the intent really is to drop grub1, I agree that grub2 should be renamed
> to 'grub' to ensure a smooth upgrade path.
Couldn't BTW grub become an empty package depending either on grub2 or on
grub1? (this seems more clean, and would allow for different dependencies on
On 4/25/07, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
Looking at these:
http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus#head-3aeedb23576d9559e29d0da487861a82761d0f87
http://grub.enbug.org/TodoList#head-45b6c08cea58b68a06b6b8e4b290588
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:09:55PM -0300, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Ok. This means that the actual upgrade from grub1 to grub2 should be
> > totally safe for all users by default, because grub-install is not
> > automatically run, yes?
>
> Yes. It won't change the system unt
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:14:09PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Frans already asked most of the questions that I had. A few others:
> >
> > Is anybody else using grub2 as a default bootloader today?
>
> Not yet.
Just an entry point, which may
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:14:09PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> > Hrm. What was wrong with the existing format? :/ Those are the kinds of
>> > upstream changes that are most aggravating for administrators (or at least
>> > for this administrator h
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:14:09PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> The upgrade from grub to grub2 will be transparent since menu.list can
> >> be automaticaly converted to the new format and this will be in place
> >> when we start the default boot-loader change.
> > Hrm. What was wrong with t
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Frans already asked most of the questions that I had. A few others:
>
> Is anybody else using grub2 as a default bootloader today?
Not yet.
> Has testing of grub2 explicitly included testing on older x86 systems, given
> that we've found that i486 wa
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:59:51AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
> - easier to maintain;
> - better codebase;
> - multi-arch support;
"support for multiple architectures" :)
> Our current plan is to finish the update-gru
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:59, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
>> - better codebase;
>
> Is grub2 fundamentally different from grub, or is it basically based on
> the current grub but just
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:59, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
> - better codebase;
Is grub2 fundamentally different from grub, or is it basically based on
the current grub but just developed further?
> - multi-arch support;
D
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:52:50AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Our current plan is to finish the update-grub2 merging on upstream
> >> side (being handled by Robert) and then upload a new package to
> >> Debian. This package after moving to lenn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes:
> Op 25-04-2007 om 10:18 schreef Otavio Salvador:
>> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I wonder if we will also move from yaboot-installer to grub2-installer
>> > on powerpc, and if you have given any thought to that migration path ?
>>
>
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Our current plan is to finish the update-grub2 merging on upstream
>> side (being handled by Robert) and then upload a new package to
>> Debian. This package after moving to lenny ought be set as default
>> boot-loader in grub-installer (while we still
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:59:51AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
>
> - easier to maintain;
> - better codebase;
> - multi-arch support;
> - active upstream;
Op 25-04-2007 om 10:18 schreef Otavio Salvador:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I wonder if we will also move from yaboot-installer to grub2-installer
> > on powerpc, and if you have given any thought to that migration path ?
>
> Our main goal is to switch i386 and amd64 first.
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder if we will also move from yaboot-installer to grub2-installer
> on powerpc, and if you have given any thought to that migration path ?
Our main goal is to switch i386 and amd64 first.
We intend to use GRUB2 as much as possible also to reduce th
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:59:51AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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>
> Hello,
>
> We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly:
>
> - easier to maintain;
> - better codebase;
> - multi-arch support;
> - active upstream;
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