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Subject: bug#25248: please, include Legacy Grub in your distro
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 22:58:04 +0100
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To: Gennadii Kondratiev <gennadii.kondratiev@gmail.com>
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Hello!

Gennadii Kondratiev <gennadii.kondratiev@gmail.com> skribis:

> May I ask you and everybody in GNU organization to again include Legacy
> Grub as a normal package in GuixSD and in everything? The reason is that =
it
> is just terrible to install the system and after not to have access to it
> or invent something how to boot it. Grub2 is invalide. For what anybody
> does need such an entity which cannot install itself on a arbitrary
> prtition?  Of course, people use different operating systems, which are on
> different partitions. I always install grub on the root partition. But
> Grub2 does not work, because you specially cut its ability.

Could you explain how you installed GuixSD and what exactly goes wrong
with GRUB (error messages, etc.)?

> !!!Please, include Legacy Grub in GuixSD!!!

GRUB 1.x is unmaintained AFAIK, and it=E2=80=99s incompatible and has a red=
uced
feature set.  It=E2=80=99s unlikely that we=E2=80=99ll add it to GuixSD.

However, if you have troubles with GuixSD and GRUB 2.x, then we should
certainly fix them, either in GuixSD or in GRUB!

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.