[Fwd: Re: Parallel kernel loading and keystroke capture in GRUB2]

[Arthur Marsh]

Pardon the ugly forwarding, this message didn't get out to grub-devel 
previously.

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Subject: Re: Parallel kernel loading and keystroke capture in GRUB2
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:45:02 +1030
From: Arthur Marsh <address@hidden>
To: Kok, Auke <address@hidden>
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Kok, Auke wrote, on 02/12/08 04:46:
> > > I'm not aware of mainstream distributions using grub2 yet. Also, I'm
> > > not aware of any distro using 30 seconds as timeout, the longest I've
> > > seen is 5 seconds.
> > Debian GNU/Linux offers grub2 as an option on installation.
>
> Debian also offers the kitchen sink, including anvil and builtin laser 
> microscope.
>
> It's fine that they do, but I doubt that debian or any of the other 
> distributions
> will want to offer grub2 as DEFAULT bootloader at installation time.
>
> Until that happens grub2 is an experiment and certainly not interesting for fast
> boot purposes. I would personally stay far away from grub2.
>
> Auke

I actually had problems with getting my boot hard disk with Debian
installation (which had been happily running grub-legacy on another
machine) to boot on its present machine until I ran the script:

/usr/sbin/upgrade-from-grub-legacy

and grub2 is running fine on this machine.

Debian don't package the bleeding edge revision of grub2 for Debian, the
version I see available is 1.96+20080724-12. Robert Millan could
probably explain the rationale for the Debian version better than I
could speculate.

Regards,

Arthur.