On 10/04/2016 12:45 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > -1 > > I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not > work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that > installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it > stops and reports me that it found some conflicting area in my bios why it > cannot work (sorry, I tell this from my memory, I've tried it quite some > time ago). Mr. Google says that this may happen for some hardware, but has > no solution to it.
Was this ever reported in bugs.gentoo.org? > > So, what are my options (or other people's options with such incompatible > hardware) without grub 1? Lilo? Grub could also be an option depending on what version you tried. If you only tested against the stable versions, a second check would be in order as 2.02_beta3-r1 went stable recently. -Nick > > - Jörg > > > William Hubbs wrote: > >> All, >> >> I want to look into removing grub:0 from the tree; here are my thoughts >> on why it should go. >> >> - the handbook doesn't document grub:0; we officially only support >> grub:2. >> >> - There are multiple bugs open against grub:0 (15 at my last count). A >> number of these as I understand it are because of custom patches we >> apply. >> >> - grub:0 can't boot a nomultilib system, so we have to maintain a >> separate package (grub-static) specifically for that setup. >> >> - Removing grub:0 from the tree doesn't stop you from using it. If people >> really want it I will place it in the graveyard overlay. >> >> - We have custom patches for grub:0, which will never go upstream. >> >> - grub:0 is dead upstream. They have not done any work on it in years. >> >> - The only real problem with grub:2 has to do with pperception. Yes, >> their documentation has a strong preference toward using their >> configuration script (grub-mkconfig) to generate your grub.cfg, but >> this is not required. >> >> So, I want to make a plan to lastrite grub:0 and grub-static. >> >> I'm thinking, in about a week, p.mask grub:0 along with grub-static and >> send out a lastrites msg with a 30 day removal notice. >> >> If there any technical objections to this, let me know what they are. >> >> Thanks, >> >> William > > >
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