GRUB2 In Fedora

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 10:02:20 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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see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2

as for the outdated version... feel free to open a bug ticket and
request an update to the latest stable version of grub2.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl




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