grub legacy is all that will install on my amd k8 computer for some strange reason at least according to debian when I try upgrading grub. On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Hi all, > I want your opinion regarding whether grub-legacy (core/grub) > package should be deprecated (downgrade it to extra/community/AUR) now > that syslinux is in core. THe actual upstream has been dead for 4 > years and every fork (grub4dos, super grub disk, grub-fedora) is > either lacking in functionality (read: GPT and such support) or being > deprecated themselves in favour of grub2. Although grub does support > gpt via a patch (not currently in the grub package), syslinux and > grub2's gpt support is much better. The background of this message is > the 'Default Bootloader in AIF' topic in arch-releng. My views > regarding grub-legacy and syslinux are at > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-March/001609.html > and Dieter's reply at > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2011-March/001610.html. > > I mainly want the opinion of Ronald Van Haren (pressh - i hope i got > the name right) (core/grub maintainer), and also other devs and TU's > regarding whether this should be done. If it is not a problem for any > dev or TU to maintain patches, should any of the grub-legacy fork(s) > be deprecated, then its okay to leave the package as it is. But if it > is a problem to maintain the package, in the light of gpt, btrfs, > nilfs2 and all other FS and partition table problems (with > grub-legacy) it should be deprecated IMO. > > Most of the advantages listed for grub-legacy are true for syslinux > too, except multi-partition booting support (syslinux is limited to > the partition from which it is booted). The decision taken by dev > regarding this will (to some extent) determine the default bootloader > supported in aif, and subsequently the bug-reports etc. If > multi-partition support if needed, the user can use > grub2-bios>=1.99~rc1 which is superior to grub2<=1.98 and also > includes a menu.lst to grub.cfg conversion utility (in grub2-common > package). > > Regards. > > Keshav > > PS: This can be considered analogous to grnome3 replacing gnome2 in > the repos although some people don't like it, since it is the policy > of Arch to package the latest release versions, in which case grub > should have been out of the repos a long time ago. > >
