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Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09) |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:59:52 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:28:05PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:54 +0100, phcoder wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we
> > > could add it to grub-soc.html.
> > Where is this file?
> > Here is elaborated list:
>
> In my opinion, matching all features of GRUB 1 on i386-pc should be the
> highest priority. It would allow distributions to switch to GRUB 2,
> bringing more users and more developers. As it stands now, GRUB 2 is
> seen as something much more experimental and dangerous than GRUB 1.
>
> We won't win many users by the mouse and bluetooth support if distros
> don't switch to the new GRUB. And distros are reluctant to make any
> changes that would be seen as regressions.
(Speaking as distro maintainer now)
We don't need a complete match of all the GRUB Legacy features in order to
migrate. The things I identified as needed for migration in Debian are
listed here:
http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition
I think Xen is fixed now though (someone can confirm?). For grub-reboot
/ savedefault almost all the pieces are there already (thanks to bean).
For lock / password we need to agree on whether the proposed approach is
acceptable, or otherwise what needs to be done.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
- Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09),
Robert Millan <=
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2009/03/13
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), phcoder, 2009/03/13
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2009/03/14
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Bean, 2009/03/15
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2009/03/22
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), phcoder, 2009/03/22
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2009/03/22
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), phcoder, 2009/03/22
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2009/03/22
- Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09), Robert Millan, 2009/03/22