[Nix-dev] GRUB 2!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Nixers!

GRUB 2 is now available in NixOS and it actually works!  :-)

To use it, one needs to set ‘boot.loader.grub.version’ to ‘2’, and then
run “nixos-rebuild switch --install-grub”.

The current version (1.97beta3) doesn’t resize background images to
match the terminal resolution so one would need to resize them manually
with convert(1) or similar.

One advantage of GRUB 2 over GRUB Legacy is that it can load various
kernels, such as the FreeBSD kernel, without resorting to intermediate
boot loaders.  That’s going to be be helpful for NixOS GNU/kFreeBSD!
:-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.