grub (v1) in f18?

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 6, 2012, at 3:02 PM, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:34:23PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> The grub2 package obsoletes grub, so there's no way to actually _use_ the
>> older package, but it's still in the tree. Is there a reason?
> 
> Yes, virtualization.
> 
> I actually thought grub had been removed, so I removed the dependency
> on it in libguestfs.  However libguestfs certainly *could* use grub,
> if it was available.  There's some heated discussion of this here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737261#c10
> 
> and also in the archives of the current mailing list.

Why is a boot manager needed for a virtualized guest? It seems like all you need is to point to a virtual disk (or current or past snapshot) and go directly to loading the kernel. 

If I could stuff < 1024 bytes of boot loader into ext4's two boot sectors, that seems ways easier than dealing with grub.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174786.html

And if there's a use case for UEFI VM's, why not use EFISTUB instead of grub?


Chris Murphy