Bug#442382: Grub multipath support

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> first of all, I fully understand your point regarding grub legacy
> maintenance. But let me explain a bit...
> 
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Failing that, what you're essentially requesting is that we take care of
> > upstream maintainance for additional functionality _and_ add one more stopper
> > for migrating to GRUB 2 in the future.
> Pleae have a look at the patch. It's fairly unintrusive and the
> grub-install part has been in this form or another in other distros
> since ages.

If the patch is so simple, what is the problem with updating it for GRUB 2?

> So am I and that's exactly why I'd like to have working grub legacy
> support in d-i before we turn or heads towards grub2.

We are already heading towards GRUB 2.  And you haven't exposed any reason
that would make GRUB 2 inappropiate for your use case.

> We might run out
> of time before lenny and will then release without multipath support.

Then why waste time on this discussion?

Please, reconsider what is the fastest way to get the feature you want...

-- 
Robert Millan

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