On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:38:34PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > > Everything I learned came from this wiki: http://grub.enbug.org/ > > I'd like to see if we can move away from lilo and towards grub2 before > the next release. I have not built grub2 for anything besides x86 / > x86_64, but if those other architectures seem stable It might not be a > bad idea to use it there either. Comments? > > -Joe A quick look at that wiki suggests that grub2 still lags behind legacy-grub in functionality, and no releases since last year. I've long since stopped building cvs - trying to follow projects CVS without following their mailing lists is a losers' game. But, it does mention this year's Summer of Code (e.g. getting it to boot from cdrom). What always freaks me out is when instructions talk about using a floppy disk - I haven't seen reliable floppy disks for about 5 years, and none of my current machines have floppy drives.
People know me as a lilo fan, but if grub2 on x86_64-64 works and allows you to edit the command line, it might be worth doing. If all goes badly wrong, I can probably boot an existing system from a lilo rescue CD;) I do get concerned when I see that one of the important things required is a 'fancy menu interface'. For powerpc the wiki makes it sound primitive and some way from being ready for prime time. In particular, it sounds as if you have to boot from an OF prompt (yaboot provides a menu for osx/linux/CD), and you need to put the grub files on an hfs filesystem: |directly next to yaboot and yaboot.conf on the existing "bootloader" |partition. | |Do not delete yaboot. You will need it when something goes wrong and |GRUB fails to boot. For efi on intel mac, I don't have the hardware. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-dev
