From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E2SN0-0001SQ-3V for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:34:10 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2SMy-0001Qp-21 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:34:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2SMv-0001Q5-KQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:34:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2SMC-0000tm-Jr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:33:20 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2SHn-0003GW-LL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:28:47 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435D28921 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:14:25 +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 19757-05 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:24:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C500871F for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:14:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E06C046 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:14:22 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200508082229.56748.okuji@enbug.org> <42F7CD60.2080400@yahoo.fr> <200508090117.25409.okuji@enbug.org> <42F83DC8.5020301@yahoo.fr> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:14:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42F83DC8.5020301@yahoo.fr> (Vincent Pelletier's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:23:20 +0200") Message-ID: <87zmrrweep.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 11:34:08 -0000 Vincent Pelletier writes: > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> And they are still talking about LILO vs. GRUB? Completely off-topic. Who on >> the earth understands your post? *sigh* > > They are asking for a popularity poll between LILO and GRUB. > And they also report some problems they had with grub legacy : > -software raid (not straightforward with grub) 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... > -"lilo -R"-like functionality (what's that ? an automatic fallback when > kernel can't be read ?) to make remote kernel changes safer. Something like this is possible with later (the latest?) GRUB Legacy release AFAIK/ > 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. :) -- Marco