Moving to Grub2?
Jeremy Huntwork
jhuntwork at linuxfromscratch.org
Fri Dec 5 02:39:13 MST 2008
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>> Check this out: http://wiki.debian.org/Grub/Grub2
>
> Yes, they have good manual pages in Debian. Thanks for the link. Let's
> hope this documentation will be accepted upstream.
>
> It is still worth mentioning that Debian uses a SVN snapshot, not a
> release, because of various bugs. See (experimental)
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20081201-1/changelog
>
It doesn't really matter too much, unless we just want to use grub2
because of features or because it supports PowerPC. I was completely
wrong: it turns out that you need 32-bit libs to build it.
So, it looks like we're back where we started.
--
JH
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