Some comments on grub2 on gutsy

[shirish]

Hi there,
          I just installed Grub2 yesterday which installed 2 other
packages like :-

aptitude show grub2
Package: grub2
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <address@hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 156k
Depends: debconf, grub-pc
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
This is a dummy transitional package to handle GRUB 2 upgrades.  It
can be safely removed.

aptitude show grub-pc
Package: grub-pc
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <address@hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 2400k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), liblzo2-2
Conflicts: pupa, grub
Replaces: pupa, grub, grub2 (< 1.95+20070604-1ubuntu1)
Provides: grub
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
GRUB 2 (also known as PUPA) is the Preliminary Universal Programming
Architecture for GRUB. It is a research project for the next
generation of GNU GRUB. The most important goal is to make GNU GRUB
cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable.

GRUB 2 targets at the following goals:

* Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions.
* Graphical interface.
* Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run
time rather than at the build time.
* Portability for various architectures.
* Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character
code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so
  on.
* Real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
* Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file systems,
files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition tables and OS
  loaders.
* Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB from a
different architecture.
* Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was eliminated.
* Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for
backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions.

This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use
with traditional PC/BIOS architecture.

Content of /boot/grub

ls -la
total 656
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2007-06-10 22:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 2007-06-09 04:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2256 2007-06-09 14:19 acorn.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4840 2007-06-09 14:19 affs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2600 2007-06-09 14:19 amiga.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2704 2007-06-09 14:19 apple.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2600 2007-06-09 14:19 bitmap.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2132 2007-06-09 14:19 blocklist.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2007-06-09 14:19 boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1360 2007-06-09 14:19 boot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1880 2007-06-09 14:19 cat.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2320 2007-06-09 14:19 _chain.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1724 2007-06-09 14:19 chain.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2212 2007-06-09 14:19 cmp.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    528 2007-06-09 14:19 command.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1908 2007-06-09 14:19 configfile.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27297 2007-06-09 14:19 core.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1592 2007-06-09 14:19 cpuid.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    197 2007-06-09 08:03 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     45 2007-06-09 14:19 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2007-06-09 14:19 diskboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8660 2007-06-09 08:03 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4492 2007-06-09 14:19 elf.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4268 2007-06-09 14:19 ext2.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4900 2007-06-09 14:19 fat.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8452 2007-06-09 08:03 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2576 2007-06-09 14:19 font.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2592 2007-06-09 14:19 fshelp.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     56 2007-06-09 14:19 fs.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6716 2007-06-09 14:19 gfxterm.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2796 2007-06-09 14:19 gpt.mod
-r--r--r-- 1 root root   1034 2007-06-10 22:30 grub.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8232 2007-06-09 14:19 gzio.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1536 2007-06-09 14:19 halt.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1288 2007-06-09 14:19 hello.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1988 2007-06-09 14:19 help.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6500 2007-06-09 14:19 hfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6400 2007-06-09 14:19 hfsplus.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     15 2007-06-09 08:04 installed-version
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5196 2007-06-09 14:19 iso9660.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5140 2007-06-09 14:19 jfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9152 2007-06-09 08:03 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31128 2007-06-09 14:19 kernel.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4876 2007-06-09 14:19 _linux.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1576 2007-06-09 14:19 linux.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3212 2007-06-09 14:19 loopback.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3864 2007-06-09 14:19 ls.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5128 2007-06-09 14:19 lvm.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4221 2007-06-10 22:30 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4220 2007-06-09 14:20 menu.lst~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4328 2007-06-09 14:19 minix.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7860 2007-06-09 08:03 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    687 2007-06-09 14:19 moddep.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5180 2007-06-09 14:19 _multiboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1632 2007-06-09 14:19 multiboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  39400 2007-06-09 14:19 normal.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3340 2007-06-09 14:19 pc.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2204 2007-06-09 14:19 play.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1024 2007-06-09 14:19 pxeboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4296 2007-06-09 14:19 raid.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1272 2007-06-09 14:19 reboot.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10132 2007-06-09 08:03 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3168 2007-06-09 14:19 search.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4360 2007-06-09 14:19 sfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2007-06-09 08:03 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110260 2007-06-09 08:04 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2552 2007-06-09 14:19 sun.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1880 2007-06-09 14:19 terminal.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7040 2007-06-09 14:19 terminfo.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1664 2007-06-09 14:19 test.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2952 2007-06-09 14:19 tga.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4724 2007-06-09 14:19 ufs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2200 2007-06-09 14:19 vbeinfo.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13944 2007-06-09 14:19 vbe.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3076 2007-06-09 14:19 vbetest.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3824 2007-06-09 14:19 video.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2788 2007-06-09 14:19 videotest.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6912 2007-06-09 14:19 xfs.mod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9980 2007-06-09 08:03 xfs_stage1_5


On the GRUB menu apart from the regular entries there is also a
chainload to GRUB 2. When I enter that I get a menu similar to GRUB
menu but without any entries. Dunno why it is there, can anybody
explain ?

This is just a comment on how it looks on gutsy, nothing else, sorry
if its out of line of context of the mailing list.

Carry on the good work. Cheers !
--
         Shirish Agarwal
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