Re: Default bootloader
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:33:06AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Robert Millan]
> > I (as GRUB co-maintainer) have discussed with Jason the possibility
> > of GRUB being the default bootloader for i386 in Debian 3.1, and we
> > agree that GRUB is now mature enough for that.
>
> Sounds good. I would also use grub as the default. We do it already
> in Skolelinux.
Let's wait a while to ensure there are no objections.
When this happens, what is the component in charge for choosing the bootloader?
> GRUB need to install automatically using the grub-installer udeb. I
> believe only bug #219833 is blocking this at the moment.
>
> I suggest that grub-installer should be co-maintained by the grub
> maintainers. This would make it easier to make sure the d-i part is
> in sync with the grub part. The packages might even be built from the
> same source, if you want that. What do you think?
Sounds good. Including grub2, that makes us have 3 grub-related packages. I
think at this point we should create a mailing list in our project at Alioth
(pkg-grub) for maintaining these.
Jason, any comments?
--
Robert Millan
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