[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: the demise of grub:0

[Jörg Schaible]

-1

I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not 
work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that 
installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it 
stops and reports me that it found some conflicting area in my bios why it 
cannot work (sorry, I tell this from my memory, I've tried it quite some 
time ago). Mr. Google says that this may happen for some hardware, but has 
no solution to it.

So, what are my options (or other people's options with such incompatible 
hardware) without grub 1? Lilo?

- Jörg


William Hubbs wrote:

> All,
>
> I want to look into removing grub:0 from the tree; here are my thoughts
> on why it should go.
>
> - the handbook doesn't document grub:0; we officially only support
>   grub:2.
>
> - There are multiple bugs open against grub:0 (15 at my last count). A
>   number of these as I understand it are because of custom patches we
>   apply.
>
> - grub:0 can't boot a nomultilib system, so we have to maintain a
>   separate package (grub-static) specifically for that setup.
>
> - Removing grub:0 from the tree doesn't stop you from using  it. If people
>   really want it I will place it in the graveyard overlay.
>
>   - We have custom patches for grub:0, which will never go upstream.
>
> - grub:0 is dead upstream. They have not done any work on it in years.
>
> - The only real problem with grub:2 has to do with pperception. Yes,
>   their documentation has a strong preference toward using their
>   configuration script (grub-mkconfig) to generate  your grub.cfg, but
>   this is not required.
>
> So, I want to make a plan to lastrite grub:0 and grub-static.
>
> I'm thinking, in about a week,  p.mask grub:0 along with grub-static and
> send out a lastrites msg with a 30 day removal notice.
>
> If there any technical objections to this, let me know what they are.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William