Re: my thoughts about grub 2

2010-08-17 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi Petr, If you could list out specific instances of what you felt is difficult, then it would be a lot helpful. A general comment like, "its not good or difficult" does not give any chance for improvements. regards, bvk.chaitanya ___ Grub-devel mai

my thoughts about grub 2

2010-08-17 Thread Petr Topiarz
Dear Developers! Firstly, thanx for all your time and effort! Grub works perfectly and is an ideal tool for me as I believe for millions of other admins too. Lately I have come accross configuring grub 2 (namely 1.98) and adding more systems. I have to say, I was discouraged, displeased and

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-17 Thread Seth Goldberg
Sorry, it would work. I just didn't think of this possibility because I find it confusing. Why is it confusing? If one has a set of disks that compose a root pool, all of those disks should be bootable. In a mirrored setup, grub-setup does what user expects (copiing core.img to each di

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-17 Thread Robert Millan
2010/8/16, Seth Goldberg : >> Implicit approach only works for mirrored setup. If you want to install >> to all >> members in a non-mirrored pool, you still need explicit approach, so I'd >> only >> implement implicit one if there's a clear benefit, such as the protection >> offered by mirroring.