Retire yaboot in favor of grub2?

Karsten Hopp karsten at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 06:29:21 EDT 2011


Am 03.07.2011 13:28, schrieb Peter Lemenkov:
> Hello All!
>
> I just tried GRUB2 on my Apple Mac Mini G4 and was surprized by its
> superior functionality and usability (compared to one in yaboot), and
> I think that we should retire yaboot in favor of GRUB2 (at least as a
> long-term goal). Are there any features of yaboot still missing in
> GRUB 2?
>


The plan is to switch to grub2 in F16 for most architectures as we could 
get rid of some special cases for bootloaders on PowerPC and System Z, 
but afaik there are still some issues with netboot that are being worked 
on upstream.

   Karsten



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