Re: grub1 support in grubby
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:05:19PM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: Given the grub1/grub2 discussion that is going on, I could use some info about the state of grubby's support for grub1. The virtual machine images that the Cloud SIG publishes on Amazon EC2 do not require bootloaders, but they do require valid grub1 *configuration files* to start. So while these images will survive grub1's eventual retirement, they will still need grubby to support grub1 configuration files for the foreseeable future so kernel updates can continue to work correctly. Is that realistic? Are there currently any plans to kill off grubby's grub1 support at some point? In case anyone is wondering what Amazon is up to, the PDF document below explains it in detail: http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/user_specified_kernels.pdf also this announcement: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/use-your-own-kernel-with-amazon-ec2.html (In short, pvgrub! I thought that was dead and buried a long time ago ..) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: grub1 support in grubby
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:58:53AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: (In short, pvgrub! I thought that was dead and buried a long time ago ..) Of course I'm confusing this with PyGrub, that was the old horrible thing. PvGrub is the shiny new thing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: grub1 support in grubby
On 09/22/2011 12:05 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: Given the grub1/grub2 discussion that is going on, I could use some info about the state of grubby's support for grub1. The virtual machine images that the Cloud SIG publishes on Amazon EC2 do not require bootloaders, but they do require valid grub1 *configuration files* to start. So while these images will survive grub1's eventual retirement, they will still need grubby to support grub1 configuration files for the foreseeable future so kernel updates can continue to work correctly. Is that realistic? Are there currently any plans to kill off grubby's grub1 support at some point? Grubby will continue to support the grub 1 style config file. -- Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: grub1 support in grubby
On 09/22/2011 09:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: Grubby will continue to support the grub 1 style config file. Just to confirm ... Does this mean that a RHEL 6/Fedora dual-boot system using grub 1 will continue to work (i.e. Fedora kernel updates will properly update the grub 1 configuration)? -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: grub1 support in grubby
On 09/22/2011 04:31 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 09/22/2011 09:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote: Grubby will continue to support the grub 1 style config file. Just to confirm ... Does this mean that a RHEL 6/Fedora dual-boot system using grub 1 will continue to work (i.e. Fedora kernel updates will properly update the grub 1 configuration)? Off the top of my head yes, assuming nothing weirder than that is going on. -- Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
