Remaining issues for the multi desktop DVD

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 23:48:52 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 1/12/11 3:38 PM, inode0 wrote:
>> Just for a point of reference I have made a multi-boot CD using grub
>> for years that is widely used where I work and I've not once received
>> a report of it failing to boot any machine. While obviously the Fedora
>> universe is larger than my universe I don't think grub is *that*
>> fragile. I think in the old days stage2 of grub depended on emulating
>> a floppy or hard drive which caused a lot of problems and that is no
>> longer true (although there may still be problems of other sorts).
>
> Is this grub1 or grub2?  I'm not claiming that grub2 is fragile, just
> that it is untested in our universe.  We don't really do costly
> production and high profile handouts with something that is untested.

grub1

John


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