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This page is about migrating GRUB Legacy to GRUB 2.

Improvements

This list skips the obvious about cleaner design, etc etc. Only tangible improvements here.

update-grub rewrite. Modular design, extensibility, etc. Will now be part of the upstream package.
EFI: Mandatory for Intel-Mac. Probably others during lenny life period.
GPT (also for non-EFI systems)
UTF-8 in menu: Needs unifont-bin (currently in queue/NEW), and latest update-grub upstream patch.
- gettext: Not implemented, should be trivial though.
LVM / software RAID: Investigate how complete/usable it is.
powerpc: New port.
grub.cfg is scriptable.

splash screen: The abstraction layer for using VGA/VBE/whatever is there. There's also a bitmap loader (PNG support being worked on). We just need to figure out how to enable it (maybe the user interface is missing).
ReiserFS not implemented: being worked on? ask Subdino @ #grub about it
XFS is implemented, but doesn't work too well: much like GRUB Legacy. Not really a regression in fact ;-).
CDROM support. Not really important since Debian isn't using GRUB for CD boot atm, but it might be an interesting option for lenny.
- 64-bit detection on x86: needed for multi-arch DVDs.
grub-reboot
"hiddenmenu" option
Weird hardware RAID paths (e.g. /dev/fubar/bazXsY). Check for regressions there (see [grub]/lib/device.c)
Rescue floppy and CD (i.e. grub-disk package)
"color cyan/blue white/blue". We really CAN'T LIVE without it. The idea would be to use it with gfxterm (although BIOS console doesn't hurt).
lock / password mechanism.
memtest86{,+} fails to boot.

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