grub / grub2 conflicts

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 20:51, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 07:42:55PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:

> It may work. It may not. It may leave the system unbootable. You can't
> guarantee it, and you've been told that this is behaviour that you can't
> depend on. If you choose to do so then fine, but any bugs filed against
> grub are just going to be closed. You're trying to do something
> unsupported. Depending on unsupported and undefined behaviour is bad
> design.

Or Doug could take over grub if he is willing to fix the issues he
runs into. Or he could fork grub into maggot, use that for his needs.
If he is willing to support it and you are not.. that would move us
from this argument.



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