On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 10:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Kruppt <krupp...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On 2014-04-23, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > >> > >> Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. > >> I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't > >> want to wade through seven files to turn those things off. Basically, > >> I'd like something like LILO that understands ext4. > > > > There are patched versions of Grub Legacy out there that > > *understand* ext4 and the use of UUID's. > > The last versions of Fedora's grub1 (IIRC in F15) could read an ext4 > filesystem so you could get its src.rpm, unpack, and rebuild it.
I suspect that grub legacy from Debian/*buntus is able to boot into ext4 too, since I used grub legacy. I only switched to grub2, because I tried to boot FreeBSD without a chainload ... in the end I chainloaded FreeBSD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398353281.701.51.camel@archlinux
