GRUB2 In Fedora

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 3 08:25:30 UTC 2009


2009/11/3 Liang Suilong <liangsuilong at gmail.com>:
> Some Linux distros has migrated from grub-0.97 to grub2-1.97. Grub2 provides
> more useful features to users. And it is more easy to add a new  file system
> support. But I can not see Fedora has any plan for GRUB2. I read a feature
> page on Fedora wiki. There is no progress on grub2.
> Now Fedora official repo offers grub2 package. However the version is quite
> strange. Fedora provides grub2-1.98. In fact, this version was 1.96 grabbed
> from svn repo on Aug 27th, 2008. Also, maintainer adds some patches to fix
> the bug. But GNU released grub2-1.97 just now.
> In addition, I try to write grub2 into MBR of the HDD. I do not know why. Is
> there a bug in grub2?
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I don't see any need for this. The current grub (0.97) can boot from
ext4, works fine with windows and other distros and has almost (no)
other issues. why to fix it when it ain't broken?




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