Inclusion of Grub 2 in FC7 ?

[Jerone Young]

Just a small update on developments with this. I finally got some time
this weekend to start to bang this out. Once I thought I had it..to my
surprise commands like "grub-install" are actually shell scripts
(partially generated from .in files..oh autoconf generated
scripts..how nice). And they specifically look for commands like
"grub-setup". So I'm going to be taking a little more time add patches
to the spec files so that everything can ex. "grub2-install" or
"grub2-setup" and work harmoniously.

So just to let everyone know I'm still working on it :-) . Hope to
have a spec and patches out by end of tuesday.

On 1/22/07, Jerone Young <jerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> This shouldn't be too big of a deal using the grub2 name. Down the
> road you can just make a symlink to grub2 that is named grub.
> Currently I think there just needs to be a migration path to grub2.
> Hopefully if it can go into FC 7 it can begin the migration.
>
> On 1/22/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:38:47 -0600,
> >   Jerone Young <jerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I can take up this task. I'll put something together this week. Though
> > > it will be interesting to figure out a way so it does not conflict
> > > with current grub. This would be a good way to figure out how to get
> > > them to exist side by side.
> >
> > I would think that using something like /boot/grub2 instead of /boot/grub
> > for config files and naming the executable /sbin/grub2 instead of
> > /sbin/grub would work OK. Once you do a set up with one of the grubs,
> > that one will be used for booting, and there isn't a lot you can do about
> > that.
> >
> > The disadvantage of doing this is that down the road you will probably
> > want to rename grub2 as grub and there will be some pain realted to that.
> >
>