GRUB2 In Fedora

[Liang Suilong]

Thanks a lot, every helper.

I am just so surprising that why grub2 in Fedora is 1.98 however the
official version is 1.97. In fact grub2 in Fedora is older that official
release. Why not follow the official release version? Does Fedora hope that
grub2 replaces grub when GNU release grub2-1.98?

I think that grub2 is too complicated for users especially for newbies. Boot
loader should be more tiny, just like grub. And Fedora offer a beautiful
background for grub. But grub2 has modular design. It looks like that it is
easier to add new features and add new filesystem support, such as btrfs
support.

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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