Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > Now that squeeze probable will freeze in December, I somehow have the > > feeling it won't use grub2 by default. > > So I suggest to change the grub2 instead of grub-legacy template. > > It shouldn't say anymore that grub2 is experimental. > > Ubuntu karmic is now using it by default and there aren't any critical > > bug reports (neither on LP or debbugs). > > > > Unfortunately I'm not at all good at these things and my english isn't > > that great either. > > I think it should mention that grub2 has support for UUIDs,ext4,lvm and > > RAID and that it lacks currently password support and savedefault. > > Or maybe the last part should be left out, so the translations won't > > need to be updated if we implement it. > > > > Ok now that Otavio agreed on IRC that it shouldn't say anymore that > grub2 itself is experimental but the d-i support for it, here's a > concrete proposal: > > GRUB 2 is the next generation of GNU GRUB. It has interesting new features > like UUIDs, LVM, mdraid and ext4, but it lacks password and savedefault > support. Note that the Debian-Installer support for it is still experimental. > If you choose to install it, you should be prepared for breakage, and have > an > idea on how to recover your system if it becomes unbootable. You're advised > not to try this in production environments. > > By the way what do these `# :sl2:' comments mean? man po-debconf > doestn't document them. >
Any comments or should we just hope that grub2 can be the default for squeeze and we get rid of that template? -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
