On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:45:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:35:58PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Uhm.. that's interesting. Have you played with GRUB on *BSD? There are some > > things that need polishing (like UFS2 or device access from GRUB shell). > > I don't want to start some flamewars, but I will simply say that I'm not > quite sure that it is worth the effort now, I mean that GRUB 1.0 is kind > of a dead end (and if Okuji has started to work on PUPA there may be > some good reasons).
Have you considered adding such features to PUPA? They would be equaly useful there. > I'm not quite convinced that the so-called GRUB shell is the correct way > for the installation, If you have some ideas, you should be pointing them out. > and for the filesystem I wonder if it would not be > better to support a "common one" that is a... tar file or, better, a > POSIX pax one... I don't see the problem with that. I don't think Okuji will like tarfs or paxfs in GRUB 0.9x but it's probably welcome in PUPA. Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the Hurd package) -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
