Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] sys-boot/grub:0 (GRUB legacy) sunset planning

2017-09-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 15:56:04 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > Open questions: > -- > - Are there existing use cases that I've missed, where migration to > grub-2 CANNOT be done? I left grub sometime ago for syslinux/pxelinux/extlinux. I run that on everything now even UEFI. I much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] sys-boot/grub:0 (GRUB legacy) sunset planning

2017-09-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 10:44:20PM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: > I have to check whether it's feasible to replace that with grub2, but > it will probably be complicated. The problem is that you can't build > full grub with asan, but you also cannot build the parts that require > external libraries (no

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] sys-boot/grub:0 (GRUB legacy) sunset planning

2017-09-03 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 15:56:04 + "Robin H. Johnson" wrote: > - Are there other use cases that need grub-static? I have used grub-static to boot Gentoo Systems built with Address Sanitizer. I have to check whether it's feasible to replace that with grub2, but it will probably be complicate

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] sys-boot/grub:0 (GRUB legacy) sunset planning

2017-09-02 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi, The base-system project would like to put forward a plan to sunset GRUB Legacy, sys-boot/grub:0 (grub-0.97). What does this cover? - - sys-boot/grub:0 - sys-boot/grub-static What does this NOT cover? - - sys-boot/grub:2 - app-emulation/xen-pvgrub [