Inclusion of Grub 2 in FC7 ?

Jerone Young jerone at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 04:58:59 UTC 2007


This shouldn't be too big of a deal using the grub2 name. Down the
road you can just make a symlink to grub2 that is named grub.
Currently I think there just needs to be a migration path to grub2.
Hopefully if it can go into FC 7 it can begin the migration.

On 1/22/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:38:47 -0600,
>   Jerone Young <jerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can take up this task. I'll put something together this week. Though
> > it will be interesting to figure out a way so it does not conflict
> > with current grub. This would be a good way to figure out how to get
> > them to exist side by side.
>
> I would think that using something like /boot/grub2 instead of /boot/grub
> for config files and naming the executable /sbin/grub2 instead of
> /sbin/grub would work OK. Once you do a set up with one of the grubs,
> that one will be used for booting, and there isn't a lot you can do about
> that.
>
> The disadvantage of doing this is that down the road you will probably
> want to rename grub2 as grub and there will be some pain realted to that.
>




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