On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <edgaralw...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:11:18 -0700 > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> there were comments that versions of Fedora prior to Version 11 or >> something did not support booting from grub2, but as of 11 or 12 it >> does. (Go look at it if you haven't already) > > Thanks a ot for your comment. I downloaded and installed Fedora 13. Works > very good with ext4 partitions. However: it uses grub 0.97 with menu.lst ! > > Probably, they are using a patched version of grub1, which is reported to be > able to handle ext4. > Viewing this, I am wondering really, if it is worth to continue on the issue > with grub2. Much more, as I crashed my box during this efforts and had to do > a big lot of work until I repaired it. Could it be, that grub2 is not already > mature enough, and distros are still waiting ? > > Regards, > Edgar >
I'm glad the comment ended up providing you with some things to think about. Best of luck getting a machine set up and running the way you want using the software you want. I looked at grub2 for a Mac Mini that's PowerPC based and decided it wasn't ready so I stuck with yaboot on that machine. Maybe it is just a bit early, especially for something that is used so little and for such a short period of time. Cheers, Mark -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
