grub2 vers. 2.04-rc1

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peter_li
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grub2 vers. 2.04-rc1

#1 Post by peter_li »

May I request this here?
It is already in Debian experimental now.

Reason:
I was informed that Oracle have it patched so that it will be able to provide two arguments to initrd.
This would help to boot Archlinux or Manjaro.

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fehlix
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Re: grub2 vers. 2.04-rc1

#2 Post by fehlix »

peter_li wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:01 pm May I request this here?
It is already in Debian experimental now.

Reason:
I was informed that Oracle have it patched so that it will be able to provide two arguments to initrd.
This would help to boot Archlinux or Manjaro.
Perhaps we let it go through some quality testing cycle first through sid. Would also like to have it within mx-testrepo.

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Jerry3904
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Re: grub2 vers. 2.04-rc1

#3 Post by Jerry3904 »

Not sure what the packagers will say, but we rarely (maybe never) have packaged a release candidate.
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Re: grub2 vers. 2.04-rc1

#4 Post by Stevo »

As an experiment, builds fail for MX 18 with gcc-6 and the experimental gcc-8 which the original debian config wants, but succeed on a vanilla Buster base. So wait for MX 19 before we go further.

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