This is mostly a repost of my ubuntu-devel mail for a wider audience, but see below for some additions.
I’d like to upgrade to GRUB 2.02 for Ubuntu 14.04; it’s currently in beta. This represents a year and a half of upstream development, and contains many …
I spent most of last week working on Ubuntu bug 693671 (“wubi install will not boot - phase 2 stops with: Try (hd0,0): NTFS5”), which was quite a challenge to debug since it involved digging into parts of the Wubi boot process I’d never really touched before. Since I …
If you find that running Windows makes a GRUB 2-based system unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug), then I’d like to hear from you. This is a bug in which some proprietary Windows-based software overwrites particular sectors in the gap between the master boot record and the first partition, sometimes …
… this version, or something not too far away from it, might actually stand a chance of getting into testing.
I’ve just uploaded grub2 1.98+20100702-1. The most significant set of
changes in this release is that it switches /boot/grub/device.map and the
grub-pc/install_devices debconf question …
(This is partly a repost of material I’ve posted to bug reports and to debian-release, put together with some more detail for a wider audience.)
You could be forgiven for looking at the RC bug activity on grub2 over the last couple of days and thinking that it’s …
Various people observed in a long thread on debian-devel that the grub2 package was in a bit of a mess in terms of its release-critical bug count, and Jordi and Stefano both got in touch with me directly to gently point out that I probably ought to be doing something …