On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dennis J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/10/2009 06:36 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:07 -0500, King InuYasha wrote: >> >> Well, the existing GRUB used in distros was declared Legacy a long >>> time ago. GRUB 2 is a rewrite that is supposed to include all the >>> features the various vendors have been patching into GRUB Legacy, as >>> well as being able to support EFI and basically supporting what the >>> Chameleon bootloader does in addition to the GRUB Legacy's support. >>> Though I doubt fake-EFI would be implemented in GRUB 2.... >>> >> >> The grub we're already shipping has EFI support. >> >> I have yet to hear of a problem we're actually having that would be >> solved with grub2. >> > > If that's the case then it obviously makes sense to stick with grub > "legacy" but given it's status who is going to be upstream for this? What I > fear is a similar situation like we had with rpm where nobody really took > ownership and vendors carried their own individual patches wich doesn't > really work well with fedoras "stay close to upstream" mantra. > > > Regards, > Dennis > We are already in that position. However, with Ubuntu's apparent willingness to test and see if GRUB 2 is worthy of being used in Ubuntu 9.10, other distros may actually do so as well. Perhaps Fedora should do a test day or something after figuring out what features we need our boot loader to actually support and if GRUB 2 would fulfill the requirements.
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