[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17460 - viric - in nixos/trunk/modules: . config installer installer/generations-dir installer/grub system/activation

[Lluís Batlle]

Hello,
2009/9/28, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
>  Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>  > How about having a non-colliding name for U-Boot options, and keeping
>  > the current name for GRUB?
>
>
> Yes, it's probably best to revert to the old option names for now, and if
>  Nicolas implements support for option renaming, we can rename it again to the
>  new ones.

It isn't that it hasn't happened before - options got renamed. Don't
you like more the new names?

>  > It seems GRUB 2 doesn’t work on the SheevaPlug, otherwise we could have
>  > all switched to GRUB 2.
>
>
> Do you have experience with GRUB 2?  How well does it work nowadays?  Is it
>  already usable for NixOS?
>
>  I guess the whole world is waiting to be able to get rid of GRUB 1 + lots of ad
>  hoc patches ;-)

Among other things, the grub developers don't want to hear anything
about grub 1 since a long time ago.