On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:46:32 +0000 Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > > At what point do we decide that we're ready to switch over? GRUB 2 still > > has some missing features (at least missing in regard to what it has > > said it will include). But from my first test with it here on my x86 box > > it appears to be functioning just as well as grub legacy did. > > Bear in mind that they made last-minute changes prior to the release of > grub-1.90 which meant it wouldn't even boot on an x86! Now they're busy > working on really important and useful(!) features like playing tunes[0] > through the PC speaker and scripting support. In short, I think they've > lost sight of the fact that they're developing a bootloader, though > there may well be use cases I'm not aware of where scripting and the > ability to play music are useful. > > It also has an added dependency of LZO, I think, though if that's the > price we have to pay to use a maintained package then I obviously don't > mind adding it to the book. Is LILO still maintained? Your comments here worry me a lot about the competence of the team writing grub2. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
