I personally see following features still missing from grub2 comparing
to grub1:
-network
It's in the list
-lock
It's more a question of discussing design that actually coding
-simple partition manipulation
I started a design discussion about this subject but nobody seems to be
interested. If I receive no further replies I suppose that my
proposition with "parttool" in "Re: [PATCH] make partition active" is ok
and implement it
-map hook
Vesa is working on low memory loading which is a prerequisite. If my
boot patch gets incorporated with Vesa's code it should be fairly simple
to do it
-setkey
I've seen that someone already started keymap support
Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:54 +0100, phcoder wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we
could add it to grub-soc.html.
Where is this file?
Here is elaborated list:
In my opinion, matching all features of GRUB 1 on i386-pc should be the
highest priority. It would allow distributions to switch to GRUB 2,
bringing more users and more developers. As it stands now, GRUB 2 is
seen as something much more experimental and dangerous than GRUB 1.
We won't win many users by the mouse and bluetooth support if distros
don't switch to the new GRUB. And distros are reluctant to make any
changes that would be seen as regressions.
If we cannot match some features, such as network support, we should
offer alternative solutions and document them.
--
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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