Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 09:55 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : > 2011/7/13 JA Magallón <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:29:31 +0200, José Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 15:12:52, Anne nicolas a écrit : > >> > 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... > >> > >> SWITCH! > >> > > > > +1 > > > >> We can switch Cauldron now, to get massive tests, now that KDM knows it. > >> > >> I feel it is specially important that drakboot, gdm and kdm work nicely > >> with > >> it (ie. no regression). > >> > >> - Test also multiboot with Ubuntu and Fedora (auto-detection) > >> > >> And still keep GRUB1 till Mageia 3, to have a simple go back avalaible for > >> people who will have problems with GRUB2. > > > > What for ? Any day from now everybody will be using btrfs to boot and then > > GRUB 1 is useless... > > How many percent of $ALL is your "everybody"? Most not-so-experienced > users will not use btrfs until it is the standard filesystem in the > installer. People who will not install Mageia2 but upgrade Mageia1 > will continue with their current filesystem. There are more reasons to > keep Grub1 for a while as an option.
Grub 2 is also able to boot ext4 without trouble since several years. So keeping grub 1 for a while doesn't make sense at all if this is related to file system. And grub 2 also support reading grub 1 configuration file since September 2010. -- Michael Scherer
