-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ken Moffat wrote: > A quick look at that wiki suggests that grub2 still lags behind > legacy-grub in functionality,
Not entirely sure which functionality you're looking for, but grub2 can boot a root-on-LVM or root-on-RAID system. (Not sure about md-raid5, but at least mirrors are supposed to be supported.) Grub-legacy can't do that. > and no releases since last year. This is a problem. It almost looks like the grub devs have fallen into a "release late, release rarely" school of thinking that's rarely good at recruiting either users or new devs... > 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. I believe it does that, although I never figured out how to make it take a config file, so I don't know for sure. I know you can build a kernel command line "from scratch", but that gets to be a PITA after doing it ... twice. ;-) I know it can also be chained from grub-legacy (that's how I was testing it); the core.img file that you create is a Multiboot-compliant "kernel". I just couldn't get that to read its config file. > I do get concerned when I see that one of the important things > required is a 'fancy menu interface'. To be fair, that's only because grub-legacy has so many "grub+fbsplash" type patches floating around. They want to be sure they can get the users of these various patches (i.e. the distros, since almost all of them install some kind of graphical-bootloader junk) to use grub2 without having to re-develop these patches. Not that I think it's ready yet either, but that's part of the problem with a "release late, release rarely" setup. It's hard to gauge how good the program is right now; all you can look at is the previous release. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGrNqZS5vET1Wea5wRA17/AJ9aDi/jWUYOTMLB4ugtB/M7andLkgCfcIXv I7Xdr4MoJuTBQh2I/IFCWvs= =ua12 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-dev
