On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:21:14PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > -----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. Until I've played with it (and that isn't likely any time soon - too much else in the way) I've no idea what is missing, it was just ny reading of their wiki. Of course, their wiki could be out of date, but usually I prefer to stick with releases. > > > 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. ;-)
That sounds like how grub2 seems to boot on OF (ppc). 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
