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

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

On Friday 13 March 2009 21:23:19 phcoder wrote:
> Look at load_env/save_env commands and grub-editenv util

Thanks. Now I really regret that I didn't find those additions earlier.

I do not like this implementation for the following reasons:

- The saved file is not plain text, unlike GRUB Legacy. This is a bad choice. 
Please let me know the reason why it must be binary, if any.

- The command names are ugly. Why didn't anybody follow Pavel's advise 
using "env"?

- The utility name is also ugly. I like Pavel's suggestion "grub-env".

If nobody stops me, I will rewrite it in one week, without caring about 
backward compatibility.

Regards,
Okuji

>
> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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