Which platforms have GRUB?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 14 21:15:27 UTC 2013


Eric H. Christensen (sparks at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> I'm working on text in the Fedora Security Guide discussing GRUB.  There
> is a sentence that reads "[Fedora] ships with the GRUB boot loader on the
> x86 platform." and I am curious as to how true that is.  Do we not use
> GRUB on any other platform?

Well, those are all the primary platforms...

For secondary arches grub2 is also used on PowerPC. It is presumably possible
that some future ARM systems might use grub2 at some point, but we don't
currently use that.

Bill


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