Eddy Petrisor wrote:
My only experience with grub on the pc was on my girlfriend's i586 laptop, and I must admit that it was a really bad experience. I had trouble finding the right flags for compiling it, and once I did, it would work fine for maybe two start ups, but then it would rewrite the ID #'s of the laptop partitions, recovering from this was not that much of a problem, since I booted with a DOS floppy and rewrote the mbr with fdisk, and then used loadlin to get bacck to linux, but I am unaware of such a tool for the mac, all be it I am not the most experienced in PPC linux, or linux in general for that matter, but an alternative would be nice in that, I thought the goal of open source software, and linux, or one of them, was that you were not "stuck" to using one peice of software.anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to yaboot :)Given how crappy is grub is on i386 I'd avoid in on other platforms at any cost.What's wrong with it?Maybe he is refering to the possible inability to boot (even the other OSes) in case on /boot corruption.Especially as yaboot works really nicely from the users POV.It works, but the maintainer is not exactly responsive in fixing bugs, even when supplied with tested patches. Given the "dead" state of development, and upstream's bad attitude, I'll be glad to switch to GRUB as soon as it's usable. [Maintaining a local fork just so I can use udev is not my idea of fun.]Maybe is time for yaboot.org ;-)
--Mike S