grub2 status

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:31:03AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm not entirely impressed with testing switching over to this new
> scheme in advance of the default boot loader supporting it, but I guess
> that's just how things work out sometimes and I realise there was a long
> delay between Bastian filing that bug and us fixing it.  Rather than
> stamping my feet and demanding that this be reverted, I think a better
> approach is to get a new grub2 version into testing that fixes just this
> one bug, and doesn't introduce any core/module interface changes so we
> won't trip over any of that class of regressions in the process.

On second thoughts, since testing has now migrated to libata, this will
just mean that large numbers of people on non-LVM systems will find that
GRUB tries to install to /dev/hda on upgrade and gets very confused when
it isn't there any more (i.e. essentially #554790 or #583271).  Poo.

I think I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, and the only way out
is to slam GRUB into a state where it's using stable device names as
soon as humanly possible, rather than the more measured approach I'd
hoped to take of biting off sets of RC bugs in smaller chunks.  If
anyone has better ideas, please let me know.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]