Re: grub2

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:54:47PM +0100, Dinar Valeev wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so I'll check the status of the sources from the openSUSE:Factory package
the next days.


> > 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.

?? Why do you think so ??

Regards,
    Jack.

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