From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QjrUD-00044Y-Kp for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:32:13 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjrU9-0003bw-IY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:32:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjrU6-0000Ou-Ip for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:32:09 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:56516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjrU6-0000Og-DP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:32:06 -0400 Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so903757wwf.30 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:32:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=GbHaOqS+qmOuXE01aPheSZbUBuTg2WlrXYf7ZmdSRvM=; b=e9pwvHe3AiGT1WhvVPuJL8uBrmgWxV+2ttnbIv6FhuPaPK6w6JnoVUN03h6WxzjvQP zwU0eyDmSiH7GvaaZ0gM4LaPSi74og0bCTsnaMvAnWqNXJ+j0M84zhKaZcRrdWjeYkZK 3qaMUey5hjBRAx4TN0beAc/JzlFKPiFQkAX78= Received: by 10.216.18.72 with SMTP id k50mr127201wek.49.1311247925382; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (137.113.63.81.cust.bluewin.ch [81.63.113.137]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h46sm785612wed.38.2011.07.21.04.32.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E280E2B.7000808@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:31:55 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110626 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Legacy GRUB to GRUB2 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig25B669F233ED3688C30FAB77" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:32:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig25B669F233ED3688C30FAB77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This message is obviously a trolling one in an attempt to start 2 flamewars. Since both topics have been previously widely discussed on this ML, consider this thread closed. On 21.07.2011 13:20, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Yash Jain wrote= : >> Could you please let me know how can i upgrade to GRUB2(because >> trusted GRUB is based on legacy GRUB) or it is still fine if i can use= >> the legacy GRUB to load kernel 2.6.37. > I'm still using GRUB-legacy with "linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6", and it > works perfectly. I'm not using any patches provided by GRUB-IMA, but I > doubt Linux developers have changed anything that would break those > patches (or any other boot loader that supports Linux), and I doubt > there's any reason for you to switch to GRUB2 in the short term. > > In the longer term, eventually you'll need to switch to a boot loader > that supports UEFI (the firmware/BIOS that GRUB-legacy relies on is > slowly being deprecated). For Linux your choices are limited to GRUB2 > and ELILO, and neither of these boot loaders have any support for > ensuring boot files haven't been tampered with. If you have a strict > requirement for that (e.g. Dept. of Defence or something), then you > may have no choice but to switch to an OS that cares more about your > security than the freedom of malicious attackers. > > > Cheers, > > Brendan > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig25B669F233ED3688C30FAB77 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk4oDisACgkQNak7dOguQgkRaQD/XTaeZLUgh1Gbq4j3FdSV1/oD WNZsbAIF39p0lpn+Zx0A/2hPprDtwht35lEenducEpZeRbRuENqNOJINSu//M8+D =1SdK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig25B669F233ED3688C30FAB77--