On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:28:05PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:54 +0100, phcoder wrote: > > Robert Millan wrote: > > > Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we > > > could add it to grub-soc.html. > > Where is this file? > > Here is elaborated list: > > In my opinion, matching all features of GRUB 1 on i386-pc should be the > highest priority. It would allow distributions to switch to GRUB 2, > bringing more users and more developers. As it stands now, GRUB 2 is > seen as something much more experimental and dangerous than GRUB 1. > > We won't win many users by the mouse and bluetooth support if distros > don't switch to the new GRUB. And distros are reluctant to make any > changes that would be seen as regressions.
(Speaking as distro maintainer now) We don't need a complete match of all the GRUB Legacy features in order to migrate. The things I identified as needed for migration in Debian are listed here: http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition I think Xen is fixed now though (someone can confirm?). For grub-reboot / savedefault almost all the pieces are there already (thanks to bean). For lock / password we need to agree on whether the proposed approach is acceptable, or otherwise what needs to be done. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
