Re: grub2

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Joachim Plack <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ??
It is already kind of broken for pmac and pseries with ext4 fs.
>
> Regards,
>    Jack.
>
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