[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS r151020 is now out!

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Jim Klimov wrote:
>
> Can't speak for OmniOS how they'd integrate the change, but in 
> OI/Hipster the Loader is added as default recently, although with a 
> specially configurable option to still use grub for now. It is 
> expected that grub will be removed roughly in a year, though.

The main problem with switching to the new loader seems to be that if 
anything goes wrong and one wants to use a previous boot environment, 
special incantations are needed to boot that previous boot environment 
since only grub knows how to automatically boot from the previous boot 
environment (the boot environment is tailored for the loader).  This 
adds a risk factor that we were insulated from up to now.

Bob
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