Re: [osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
russell aspinwall 7will...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: Hi, I found a reference here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB ) that OpenSolaris uses a modified Legacy GRUB install to support disk labels, automatic 64 bit kernel selection and booting from ZFS (with compression and multiple boot

Re: [osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Isn't GRUB2 GPLv3 and isn't GPLv3 a bigger risk when using with OpenSolaris than the GPLv2 is? Bigger risk of what? OpenSolaris includes a number of GPLv3 components already. (The patent clauses of GPLv3 do require projects using it to need additional review when

Re: [osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Isn't GRUB2 GPLv3 and isn't GPLv3 a bigger risk when using with OpenSolaris than the GPLv2 is? Bigger risk of what? OpenSolaris includes a number of GPLv3 components already. (The patent clauses of GPLv3 do

[osol-discuss] Legacy GRUB v GRUB2

2009-11-17 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, I found a reference here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB ) that OpenSolaris uses a modified Legacy GRUB install to support disk labels, automatic 64 bit kernel selection and booting from ZFS (with compression and multiple boot environments). Are there plans to support GRUB2 as the