On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:29:15AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Having /boot on a separate partition for robustness, security or advanced features (encrypted LVM and stuff) is one thing, but having it because the default bootloader doesn't support current (ext4) and future (btrfs) filesystems seems like a hack to me.
But I don’t think that everyone will switch to ext4 with the next release, even if they install new systems. Does the squeeze installer support ext4 or is this the new filesystem if you don’t choose one?
Besides we are not talking about having grub1 for all eternity. If grub2 will support all features of grub1, we can replace the bootloader in squeeze + 1.
Is it just me or does this sound like the KDE3 -> KDE4 debate all over again?
I don’t know, I don’t use KDE. ;-)But if I have to use KDE to help another user, I feel more comfortable with KDE3. KDE4 looks terribly and I don’t find anything.
software (Stephen's case), but we have to face it: * LILO is not developed anymore * Grub1 is not developed anymore
Yes, but for now both bootloader are still working. They may not support ext4, but they do support things grub2 doesn’t.
Unless there are people interested in further developing those code bases they will be gone sooner or later. And my feeling (as a
Yes, but in the time for squeeze + 1, grub2 may get all missing features from grub1. Then we can at least through away grub1.
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