Arthur Marsh wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote, on 2008-11-29 02:06: >> Vlad wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> In a recent demonstration of how to boot Linux in 5 seconds [1], >>> PowerTOP developers did not use GRUB2, even though GRUB2 is a >>> necessary component of any production and consumer Linux system or >>> multi-boot environment. As I see it, the greatest disadvantage of >>> GRUB2 is that it needlessly wastes the time in which it gives the >>> user the chance to stall the boot sequence in order to make changes >>> to the boot settings. Of course, having this option available is a >>> necesity in case the user's hardware requires tweaking the >>> parameters passed to the kernel. However, GRUB2 should be loading >>> the default kernel during this time, instead of deferring this >>> IO-bound task to after the timeout has elapsed. >> we used grub 1. >>> Since popular Linux distros typically display the GRUB2 intro >>> message for 30 seconds, >> I'm not aware of mainstream distributions using grub2 yet. Also, I'm >> not aware of any distro using 30 seconds as timeout, the longest I've >> seen is 5 seconds. > > Debian GNU/Linux offers grub2 as an option on installation.
Debian also offers the kitchen sink, including anvil and builtin laser microscope. It's fine that they do, but I doubt that debian or any of the other distributions will want to offer grub2 as DEFAULT bootloader at installation time. Until that happens grub2 is an experiment and certainly not interesting for fast boot purposes. I would personally stay far away from grub2. Auke _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
