Bug#407338: Another GRUB upload

[Robert Edmonds]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 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 just tried grub2 out on a fresh sid install and failed due to #409073.
It seems neither grub nor grub2 support GPT at the moment?

> 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.

The patch seems reasonably clean to me; while I am not an expert at
parsing partition tables, it seems the only possible regression could be
mistakenly interpreting a non-GPT partitioned block device as GPT.  Is
it possible this patch could make it into etch after release via
proposed-updates?

(Of course, I'm not opposed to maintaining a locally patched version of
grub for a handful of specialized servers.  Perhaps a note in the
release notes for this admittedly rare configuration would be in order?)

> 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.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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