Re: grub2

Dinar Valeev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ppc
Message-ID <CADqALGR8EKmdU6EVUXv7eiyGJTKOKMEJQG+nQ-BuF0StgD6vUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Joachim Plack <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Dinar Valeev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do you think if we can follow x86 Factory movement to try to
>> switch default bootloader to grub2?
>>
>> grub2 is packaged
>>
>> We need to hack:
>> perl-bootloader
>> yast2-bootloader
>> probably installation-images
>>
>> It should work on pSeries machines and PowerMac.
>
> Do you really think it works on pSeries?
> Last time I downloaded it (January?) it did not look having too much support in it.
I've seen quite a lot of positive feedback on it.

>
> I'd be happy to help, whereas my time is limited
>
> But first I'd like to get a pSeries set up and booted through grub2 manually before start hacking on the environment.
That's sounds as a plan.
>
> nevertheless, changing perl-bootloader, yast2-bootloader might be left unchanged.
> Just the "lilo" wrapper script needs changing.
It will make things even more complicated.
>
> Regards,
>    Jack.
>
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