On 20-11-2010 15:15, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:38:33 +0100 > schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> I don't think it's a good idea to maintain that many bootloaders in >> core. grub-legacy is unmaintained, lilo has a very old-school design >> and major disadvantages. We could keep grub2, but it seems it isn't >> really stable yet. > > That's what I mean. There's unfortunately not an allrounder, yet. One > old and unmaintained, one still older bootloader, one newer and > maintained but still unstable and one newer and maintained with not so > many supported filesystems. It just needs to know how to read well from /boot which can be quite small (100~200MB) and be whatever filesystem will be supported for years to come, even if the supported filesystems change it's not much of a trouble copying stuff somewhere else, formatting and copying back. Sometimes more is not better if support is flaky. -- Mauro Santos
