Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 05:59:52 Robert Millan wrote:
> We don't need a complete match of all the GRUB Legacy features in order to
> migrate.  The things I identified as needed for migration in Debian are
> listed here:
>
>   http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition
>
> I think Xen is fixed now though (someone can confirm?).  For grub-reboot
> / savedefault almost all the pieces are there already (thanks to bean).
>
> For lock / password we need to agree on whether the proposed approach is
> acceptable, or otherwise what needs to be done.

I have the same regression problem as Debian, personally. The password-based 
security feature is not quite important for me, but savedefault / fallback 
are critical to use GRUB in a remote environment (to upgrade / replace a 
kernel safely).

So, I am ready for spending time to review any patch about this. Could you 
pinpoint where the "proposed approach" is?

Regards,
Okuji