Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grub-0.97-12
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:25 -0700, JaDa wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:09:19 -0700, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
Macbooks are i686 and x86_64 too. Do we want those people to install lilo because our old ancient version of grub that hasn't seen any development for years, doesn't support the partition table used on their machine? Or worse: do we want to push them to other distributions that do have a patched grub?
For some projects you can't go vanilla. Some examples: - xorg - kernel - openoffice.org
why not Grub2 (1.96) ?
Grub2 is alpha quality software which isn't finished yet. There's no support for reiserfs for example.
Wow, i didn't know that we come so far. Grub/Lilo are our bootloaders, so i cannot understand how such a heated discussion is started, when it comes to users who want to install and use Arch as their primary distribution and can't do it as they want want because we claim to not patch it to their needs, which doesn't affect the others in any way. Yes we can tell them use debian,suse,gentoo whatever else, i don't think that is a good way to go. And i really want to see those who have issues with the new grub. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
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Jan de Groot
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