GRUB

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> 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.

I understand :o) But...as I understand it, it's the old/current GRUB
that is a huge and very messy pile of fixes/patchs, and GRUB2 is
essentially meant to be a complete rewrite to allow for a brand new,
"clean" code, precisely to be more robust, not less, than the old grub.
Then of course, they want to make it more modern with eye candy, like
LILO already has it seems...why don't we use LILO by default...

> Grub is one thing I want the Devs to be slow and methodical about. 

I want the Devs to be methodical about everything, not just GRUB ! ;o)
But I don't particularly want them to be slow ! The faster Ubuntu
improve, the better, why wait... ;o)

> 250 GB is a lot of data to loose because someone rushed, and that's just
> one of my hard drives.

Anything can happen on a computer, S/W bug or H/W failure or user doing
mistakes or any combiantion of the 3, so one should always back-up his
precious data no matter what...
Granted, it doesn't matter what cause the data loss, a power cut whilst
the system is doing a fsck or whatever, a lightening frying the
motherboard, your 5 year old playing football in the computer room and
hitting the machine, anything can happen. 
The risk is there, you can't control it 100% no matter how hard you try,
so the only real solution is to back-up everything....

--
Vince