On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 12:06 -0700, J.H. wrote: > On 04/19/2011 09:34 AM, David Lehman wrote: > > Lots of miscellaneous fixes and tweaks to general bootloader stuff. > > > > Also introduces a GRUB2 class and eventually makes it the default on > > X86. GRUB2 lacks working support for passwords and is missing control > > over ordering of various kernels/entries. Otherwise, believe it or not, > > it is functional whereas GRUB1 is not. > > From a personal perspective (and one I realize I won't be able to change > the course of things here) I'd question both GRUB1 and GRUB2 being > functional. What I mean by that statement is that grub on rawhide is broken. It has nothing to do with anaconda. Meanwhile, grub2 is working. > > I'd also point out that while GRUB1 has it's warts (sometimes updating a > kernel causes grub to no longer be able to boot for instance), it is the > devil that we (Fedora), and the rest of the admin community know and > understand. Keep in mind that this is for rawhide and, as you can see by glancing at patch 13, is trivial to reverse. You could even reverse it with an updates.img if you don't like grub2. > > I'd also claim that taking features away (as you mentioned passwords and > ordering of kernels / entries, at the least) is not something to be > taken as lightly as it seems. I don't object to the patches, but I do > object / have serious concern over making GRUB2 the default. The intention here is to get more testing on grub2 so that we can identify areas of concern and get them addressed so that it is ready for F16. I am quite comfortable with the idea of breaking things in rawhide for the sake of progress. That is what it is for, IMO. Dave > > - John 'Warthog9' Hawley _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
