Moving to Grub2?

[Jeremy Huntwork]

Hello,

I started working on bringing in compatible boot loaders for use with 
x86_64 (and, possibly, PowerPC). The idea at first was just to move all 
bootloaders down to chapter 8 and list which ones are compatible for 
which arch/setup.

I have started on that route already, see here:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-trunk/

But as I'm working on this, I figured I'd pop in to grub2 headquarters 
and see what the status is. I know that historically, this community 
hasn't really been too fond of grub2 because of all the perceived 
attention spent on bells and whistles.

Still, the idea of one bootloader that works for nearly all hardware 
(their site says: It is working on PC, OpenFirmware-based PowerPC 
machines (PowerMac and Pegasos) and EFI-based PC (IntelMac)), it's just 
too attractive to ignore completely.

The latest version is 1.96, released in February of this year. Has 
anyone tested this yet?

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JH