On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:58 -0500, Gene wrote: >> >Side-note about your "Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from >> >grub." thread. The partitioning details are confusing, contradictory, >> >inaccurate and incomplete. First impression is that you misconfigured >> > the grub.conf completely. The post is long, but missing the most >> > important step. To accurately collect the configuration details _prior >> > to_ jumping to wild conclusions. I would have asked a couple of >> > questions in thread thread, in particular because error 13 is explained >> > in the manual. >> >> It is? In what manual may I be so rude as to ask? > >The "GRUB manual": info grub > >And it isn't rude to ask. > But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. >> >> and generally so were the posts bitching about the grub2 rpm being >> >> supplied, its broken in that it only searches the boot its booted >> >> from. >> > >> >What is the ticket number in bugzilla? >> >> You can generate it, but I now have doubts there is any interest on the >> part of fedora to fix it. Why? cuz fixing it would destroy the vendor >> lock in that your version enforces. And IMO, it really doesn't get any >> clearer than that. > >Even in Fedora 12, the standard boot loader still is legacy GRUB. That one >works fine here. > >By trying out GRUB2 (a development snaphot release), and an optional >install from the Fedora repositories, you opted to become a guinea pig. >No damage is done if that thing just doesn't work yet (for unknown >reasons) as you could return to legacy GRUB. > >It may be that only very few users even played with GRUB2 in Fedora 10 >or earlier. Inclusion of the "grub2" in F10's repositories may have been >the result of adding it for evaluation purposes, perhaps as a test-update, >and the next release of the dist inherited it. >Speculations over speculations. Perhaps a couple of other dists, who >have switched to using GRUB2 development, apply their own customisation >patches to make it work. That would not be unusual. And it's likely that >in Fedora-land this has not started or has started only in tiny steps >because "grub2" is just an optional package for the community to try >out and help with by contributing problem reports, fixes, and general >package development. >Are you aware of the following page? I guess, not. >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 > Thanks for the link, I have looked at it now, and it would appear to be in need of an update to the last 3 or 4 months progress. And the progress doesn't seem to be coming from gnu.org. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Jones' Second Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
