From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E2UAD-0008Ov-OR for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:29:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2U9T-00086K-Vl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:28:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2U9N-000828-7a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:28:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2U9M-00080B-3m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:28:12 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2UFh-0004Wp-Mo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:34:45 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A1289AC for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:20:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29455-04 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:30:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEB18B42 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:20:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74498C047 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:20:18 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200508082229.56748.okuji@enbug.org> <42F83DC8.5020301@yahoo.fr> <87zmrrweep.fsf@student.han.nl> <200508091437.16103.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:20:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200508091437.16103.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:37:15 +0200") Message-ID: <87ek93qmb3.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: savannah X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:28:24 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 13:14, Marco Gerards wrote: >> This can be easily implemented in GRUB 2 just like I implemented the >> "loopback" support. I did not know how software raid worked in GRUB >> Legacy (I did not know it had software raid support) and I do not know >> if this is the right way to implement it... > > GRUB Legacy does not have explicit support, but it works with RAID 1 if you > install GRUB to /dev/md0, because the disks are just mirroring. Someone told me that this is not a correct approach. The correct one is being able to fall back to the other mirror disk when the first disk can not be read. I don't know if this is important or not, I don't know much about RAID. >> > What comes up is also that most users just keep the default bootloader >> > from their distro. And grub seems to be the default bootloader in a >> > growing number of distributions. >> >> Right. I think it is our task to make GRUB 2 the default. :) > > Yes, if your interest is to get many users. I'm not interested very much. My interest is to make GRUB Legacy obsolete and get more contributors and testers. -- Marco