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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] grub no longer being maintained?  drops support for
From:       Hans Witvliet <hwit () a-domani ! nl>
Date:       2009-06-12 7:06:00
Message-ID: 1244790360.12575.52.camel () localhost
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On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 01:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/06/11 22:00 (GMT-0700) Linda A. Walsh composed:
> 
> > I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792,
> ...
> > Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should
> > be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still
> > supports high performance file systems like XFS.
> 
> Grub 1 does not support XFS and is not maintained. The Grub devs are
> wontfixing all Grub 1 bugs. Grub 2 does support XFS and is maintained. The
> current devel version of Ubuntu uses Grub 2 by default. The Fedora devs are
> currently discussing whether it's time to switch to Grub 2 in its latest
> devel version.
> 
> Lilo, even though "maintained", is an anachronism with flexibility vastly
> inferior to Grub 1, and even more inferior to Grub 2.
> -- 

Now you brought version-2 up...
afaik, grub2 isn't available as a prebuild package during instalation.
Not?
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