Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:20:54PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Right, but we can't get rid of it totally. For example, if they don't >> reserve enough space at the beginning of disk, there is no way to >> install grub2 without blocklist. And, some people may want to install >> to partition instead of mbr. blocklist is useful in small media as >> well, like floppy, which don't the luxury of mbr. > > My point is that users shouldn't provide this kind of insane setups and > expect GRUB to work well in them. Instead of jumping through hoops in order > to support them no matter what, I find it perfectly reasonable that we refuse > to do it. > > To me, this sounds like a slippery slope. Users come requesting support for > all sort of weird setups all the time (I remember a recent thread from someone > who wanted to boot right away from LVM without partition table). GRUB is > free software, so everyone can adjust it to their needs, but when we implement > the code to support one of these setups, we're basically promising to support > it in the future, deal with user problems and bug fixes. This shouldn't be > treated lightly IMHO.
I personally have no problems with saying no from time to time :-) -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
