On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:25 -0700, JaDa wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:09:19 -0700, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Macbooks are i686 and x86_64 too. Do we want those people to install > > lilo because our old ancient version of grub that hasn't seen any > > development for years, doesn't support the partition table used on their > > machine? > > Or worse: do we want to push them to other distributions that do have a > > patched grub? > > > > For some projects you can't go vanilla. Some examples: > > - xorg > > - kernel > > - openoffice.org > > > > > > why not Grub2 (1.96) ?
Grub2 is alpha quality software which isn't finished yet. There's no support for reiserfs for example.
