Kok, Auke wrote: > Arthur Marsh wrote: >> Arjan van de Ven wrote, on 2008-11-29 02:06: >>> Vlad wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> In a recent demonstration of how to boot Linux in 5 seconds [1], >>>> PowerTOP developers did not use GRUB2, even though GRUB2 is a >>>> necessary component of any production and consumer Linux system or >>>> multi-boot environment. As I see it, the greatest disadvantage of >>>> GRUB2 is that it needlessly wastes the time in which it gives the >>>> user the chance to stall the boot sequence in order to make changes >>>> to the boot settings. Of course, having this option available is a >>>> necesity in case the user's hardware requires tweaking the >>>> parameters passed to the kernel. However, GRUB2 should be loading >>>> the default kernel during this time, instead of deferring this >>>> IO-bound task to after the timeout has elapsed. >>> we used grub 1. >>>> Since popular Linux distros typically display the GRUB2 intro >>>> message for 30 seconds, >>> I'm not aware of mainstream distributions using grub2 yet. Also, I'm >>> not aware of any distro using 30 seconds as timeout, the longest I've >>> seen is 5 seconds. >> >> Debian GNU/Linux offers grub2 as an option on installation. > > Debian also offers the kitchen sink, including anvil and builtin laser > microscope. > > It's fine that they do, but I doubt that debian or any of the other > distributions will want to offer grub2 as DEFAULT bootloader at installation > time. > > Until that happens grub2 is an experiment and certainly not interesting for > fast boot purposes. I would personally stay far away from grub2.
grub2 is enabled in the debian installer by default given some conditions are met (if I understand correctly, only when installing on some EFI-based systems). There was a proposal to make grub2 default for lenny, but apparently it didn't make it. -- Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
