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 * Multiboot loader supports loading invalid images (i.e. without multiboot header)

This page is about migrating GRUB Legacy to GRUB 2.

Initial proposal sent by Otavio: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/04/msg00328.html

Regressions

Non-regression issues that may become essential (or at least, desirable) during lenny life period

  • Filesystems haven't been proof-tested with 64-bit offsets (2 TiB disks). Not really a regression (Legacy GRUB has the same problem), but it'll become critical in the future. There's a task for this in upstream: http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7667