On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michael scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:12:52PM +0200, Anne nicolas wrote: >> Yet another burning subject that needs time to think about it and >> eventually migrate to. >> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121 >> >> Grub 2 is coming now regularly in proposals. What should we do about it : >> - Stay with Grub 1 - pb ? maintainance ? restrictions ? >> - Switch to Grub 2 : smooth migration, tests, integration... >> - another alternative ? >> >> As usual, comments, proposals... > > I think we should offer support for it, ie package, patch the tools > ( given the fact that 5 people are ready to do the switch, I guess they are > all eager to help on creating a proper package ). > > But not do a change in the default before Mageia 3. While Grub 2 is working > fine ( I use it since 3 years ), there was people complaining about this on > ubuntu ( because > this changed their habits, because the documentation was sparse ) to warrant > not rushing the change. We value quality, and so we can offer grub2 as a > option, > and make sure it got enough test, even by people on the stable release before > deciding. > > IE, without any test, we should not change, so I would set a deadline to have > grub2 > ready befre saying "we switch". > > -- > Michael Scherer > People that want grub 2 should be able to do it like those that use lilo. > >
i agree with this: mageia 2 : Add support of grub2 in mageia 2 mageia 3 : Enable it by default but still provide grub 14 support for people prefering it
