Re: [arch-dev-public] Grub2
Hi all, Grub2 is now in my staging dir for both architectures. I'll move it into extra shortly. Things to know: - config file changed to /boot/grub/grub.cfg - config syntax changed a bit - most information can be found on the grub2 archwiki page [1] If you have any experience with grub2 and know your way around, the wiki page still needs some attention for some more special options. The basic stuff should be covered. If you have a more exotic configuration than I have, give it a try. I can't test a lot of use cases myself. Ronald [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2
Am Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:31:40 +0100 schrieb "Ronald van Haren" <pressh@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
Grub2 is now in my staging dir for both architectures. I'll move it into extra shortly.
Things to know: - config file changed to /boot/grub/grub.cfg - config syntax changed a bit - most information can be found on the grub2 archwiki page [1]
If you have any experience with grub2 and know your way around, the wiki page still needs some attention for some more special options. The basic stuff should be covered.
If you have a more exotic configuration than I have, give it a try. I can't test a lot of use cases myself.
Ronald
Have you tried to compile it on x86_64? I highly doubt it can't be done. I'm subscribed to the grub development list for a long time and so far I would not expect any usable release before 2010 - so why do we put this into extra? Only because 2 devs find it cool to have it? Why not maintain it in AUR until it becomes late beta state and watch the usual voting procedure? Look what grub devs posted on 20080907: Hi All, As our release plan is rotting a bit, I zapped current plan on Wiki and here is my proposal for plan targetting 2.0 gold release. == 1.97 == Estimate Date:: 2008-??-?? (ASAP) Release Focus:: General release. Improving usability and stability. == 1.98 == Estimate Date:: 2009-??-?? (2009 new years release :) ?) Release Focus:: Integrating USB and Graphical Menu to baseline. Improving usability and stability. == 1.99 == Estimate Date:: 2009-??-?? (mid 2009?) Release Focus:: Feature catchup from GRUB Legacy. Serious stabilization and documentation. Note:: We would like to claim that GRUB 2 is ''beta'' at this stage. ''beta'' means that GRUB 2 has the same usability as GRUB Legacy. == 2.00 == Estimate Date:: 2009-??-?? (2010 new years release :) ?) Release Focus:: Serious stabilization and finalize documentation. Note:: GRUB 2 is now ''gold''. Official major release intended to replace GRUB Legacy in mainstream use. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen To me it's not ready and worth sitting in extra. One exception I could imagine: call it grub-devel. That's what it is. calling it grub2 in extra implies to me it to be the stable successor of grub(-legacy). and that's not true. I hope it's not to late for serious concerns. -Andy
On 12/3/08, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Have you tried to compile it on x86_64? I highly doubt it can't be done.
sure I tried but it did not work. From quite a bit googling I found that all distros who include grub2 use either a statically compiled one or use a multilib environment. But please, be my guess and prove I'm wrong.
I'm subscribed to the grub development list for a long time and so far I would not expect any usable release before 2010 - so why do we put this into extra? Only because 2 devs find it cool to have it? Why not maintain it in AUR until it becomes late beta state and watch the usual voting procedure?
AFAIK grub-legacy is not able to boot from ext4 ?
To me it's not ready and worth sitting in extra. One exception I could imagine: call it grub-devel. That's what it is. calling it grub2 in extra implies to me it to be the stable successor of grub(-legacy). and that's not true.
I hope it's not to late for serious concerns.
well it actually is a bit late as it is already in the repo now. As far as I understand grub2 is the codename of the next generation grub. Once it is stable it will be renamed to grub upstream. Besides that, the install message clearly states that it is still in development. IMO renaming it grub-devel again is not needed, but I don't care too much how it is called. It won't appear on anyones machine all of a sudden, everyone is free to use it, and if they choose to ignore the warning they should know what they are doing. Ronald
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