Re: grub configuration file format change?

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi,

Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Thu, 13 Aug 2009:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:45:17PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I know this isn't on the 1.97 roadmap, but I was wondering about the
> > status of changing the grub.cfg format.  I'm currently trying to plan
> > GRUB2 work for Solaris and I'd like to minimize as much code change as I
> > can.
>
> We tend to change it very often.  I can't garantee there won't be any minor
> change before 1.97.

 Ok, I'll keep that in mind.  I do understand that GRUB is under rapid 
development.

> Is this an issue for you?  Colin said he was concerned about core.img and
> grub.cfg getting out of sync (see the other sub-thread).  Does this problem
> also affect you?

  I saw that thread :) -- I don't think it's as much of a problem, because 
we'll probably stabilize on a particular snapshot of GRUB2.  For incompatible 
updates to grub.cfg, I think we'll handle that when we update to a newer 
snapshot.  It may be a concern for users who try to update GRUB2 themselves 
with the bleeding edge from the svn repo, but I think the community can handle 
that on a case-by-case basis.

  --S