Bug#407338: Another GRUB upload

[Otavio Salvador]

"Robert S. Edmonds" <edmonds at debian.org> writes:

> I am unsure if the standard lilo in etch can boot off these devices, but
> lilo is an enormous backwards step in features from grub.  Robert Millan
> suggests the use of grub2 in #407338, but it seems this package is
> marked "[EXPERIMENTAL]" in the short description and is not available in
> testing.

GRUB2 is tagged as experimental because upstream hadn't yet finished
to put new features on it. It's very stable and does very well for a
lot of users. I would like to ask if you can try it and if it does
work for you we can try to push it to testing.

I understand that importance of the GPT support on GRUB but I also
worry about the possible regressions it can bring to it too. We're too
near of release and after some discussion between I and Robert we
opted to keep it out.

Our idea, just after Etch release, is start to replace the grub with
grub2 for all possible architectures :-D That would solve a lot of
problems, for sure.

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