On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
The main problem with grub1 is the same as with lilo: there is no upstream maintainer, and crucial parts of the code are undocumented and not understandable¹.
But at least grub1 is working in a wider field than grub2. And lilo is still working, too. Maybe not with the current Debian kernel, but it works for people building their own kernel.
So which bootloader should be the default? Grub1 is also lacking important features, albeit different ones than grub2 (e.g. ext4 support).
Maybe, but ext4 support is not really crucial. Simply make /boot ext2.I would say, the default bootloader should be grub1, expert installation can offer grub2 as well. Lilo should be in the distribution as well, so people can switch after installation. At least for the next release.
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