GRUB 2 release?

GRUB 2 release?

[Matt Sturgeon]

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when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an
installer?
a good idea for an installer would be a live-CD with a text based installer
- ubuntu's alternate installer has a good example of a text-based installer
(You select an option from isolinux.cfg - the boot menu - then it loads a
text-based installer, without even using a kernel).

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RE: GRUB 2 release?

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
That's the beauty of open source. If you, yourself, want to create just such
an installer, and even a live-CD wrapped around your favorite distribution,
then go ahead. Simply announce it here after you've worked out the bugs; and
when you do see those bugs before you are ready for a release, just describe
them here.

As far as I know an actual release isn't in the works yet for what's
currently stored in SVN, everyone else is still working on such things as
networking.
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
 
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Subject: GRUB 2 release?

when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an
installer?
a good idea for an installer would be a live-CD with a text based installer
- ubuntu's alternate installer has a good example of a text-based installer
(You select an option from isolinux.cfg - the boot menu - then it loads a
text-based installer, without even using a kernel). 

Re: GRUB 2 release?

[Matt Sturgeon]

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How is GRUB 2 installed at the moment?

could you tell me in basic and detail if you know both.

2008/10/25 Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>

> Hello!
> That's the beauty of open source. If you, yourself, want to create just
> such
> an installer, and even a live-CD wrapped around your favorite distribution,
> then go ahead. Simply announce it here after you've worked out the bugs;
> and
> when you do see those bugs before you are ready for a release, just
> describe
> them here.
>
> As far as I know an actual release isn't in the works yet for what's
> currently stored in SVN, everyone else is still working on such things as
> networking.
> --
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
> "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grub-devel-bounces+hansolofalcon=worldnet.att.net@gnu.org
> [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+hansolofalcon<grub-devel-bounces%2Bhansolofalcon>
> =worldnet.att.net@gnu.org] On Behalf
> Of Matt Sturgeon
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: grub-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: GRUB 2 release?
>
> when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an
> installer?
> a good idea for an installer would be a live-CD with a text based installer
> - ubuntu's alternate installer has a good example of a text-based installer
> (You select an option from isolinux.cfg - the boot menu - then it loads a
> text-based installer, without even using a kernel).
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
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Re: GRUB 2 release?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 25.10.2008, 18:03 +0100 schrieb Matt Sturgeon:
> How is GRUB 2 installed at the moment?
> 
> could you tell me in basic and detail if you know both.
> 

svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
cd grub2
./configure && make && make install
`grub-install /dev/sda' if you want grub2 to have in MBR of disk sda.
and then `grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' to have a generated
grub.cfg.
-- 
Felix Zielcke

Re: GRUB 2 release?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 25.10.2008, 15:33 +0100 schrieb Matt Sturgeon:
> when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an
> installer?

grub-legacy wasn't ever released as stable.
Though it always depends how you define `stable'.
In my opion grub2 is more bugfree then grub-legacy, it just doestn't
have yet every feature from it. For example `map' command and
savedefault/fallback thing, but instead it has RAID/LVM support for
example.

There was some talk about a new release 1.97 but unfortunately both
maintainers are busy with other things so there won't be that soon a new
release, which could be made from my point of view.

-- 
Felix Zielcke

Re: GRUB 2 release?

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Sunday 26 October 2008 17:27:50 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 25.10.2008, 15:33 +0100 schrieb Matt Sturgeon:
> > when will GRUB 2 be released as stable edition, and will there be an
> > installer?
>
> grub-legacy wasn't ever released as stable.
> Though it always depends how you define `stable'.
> In my opion grub2 is more bugfree then grub-legacy, it just doestn't
> have yet every feature from it. For example `map' command and
> savedefault/fallback thing, but instead it has RAID/LVM support for
> example.
>
> There was some talk about a new release 1.97 but unfortunately both
> maintainers are busy with other things so there won't be that soon a new
> release, which could be made from my point of view.

Who has time these days? I can ask the GNU project to appoint yet another 
person as a co-maintainer. I don't like to be the bottleneck.

(Note that being a maintainer needs to follow and advocate the philosophy of 
GNU, as a representative of the GNU project. So, if you have any important 
role in another project (e.g. Debian), I don't recommend being a maintainer. 
Otherwise, you will face on conflicts from time to time.)

Regards,
Okuji

Re: GRUB 2 release?

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> (Note that being a maintainer needs to follow and advocate the philosophy of 
> GNU, as a representative of the GNU project. So, if you have any important 
> role in another project (e.g. Debian), I don't recommend being a maintainer. 
> Otherwise, you will face on conflicts from time to time.)

Debian works differently;  everyone holds their own position, and that is why
we spend all day flaming ;-)

(mine happens to be quite close to that of the GNU project, but I don't think
I'd make a good co-maintainer;  I lack spare time :-( )

-- 
Robert Millan

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