GRUB

William F Pearson III wfpearson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 07:30:06 UTC 2005


The idea of hurrying to fix a bootloader up for the release of a
distro gives me the shudders. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
Grub is one thing I want the Devs to be slow and methodical about. 250
GB is a lot of data to loose because someone rushed, and that's just
one of my hard drives.

On 4/15/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > BTW, there is a beta version of grub-2 in the universe repository for
> > Hoary.
> 
> Is there really ? Great ! So hopefully, if the GRUB team works fast
> enough, Ubuntu might be able to use it for Breezy ! :o)
> 
> > The description has a big warning saying it does not have all
> > it's functionality yet and use at your own risk. I would definitely try
> > this on a separate hard disk!
> 
> Hmm, I hardly feel confident fixing GRUB in any way, so I will patiently
> wait for it to be stable and incorporated to Ubuntu properly, by our
> highhhhhly skilled and competent devs :-)
> Also, according to GRUB's Wiki, the eye candy is not implemented yet, so
> I wouldn't have anything to play with really ;o)
> 
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> Vince
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