On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:09:56PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:46:01 -1000 > Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is it just me, or is Grub2 as complex and error prone as systemd? > > > > > > I'm wondering if we can have alternate boot loaders. > > > > GRUB is brilliant, and complicated. I recently had an issue > > with update-grub hanging on trying to read from a swap > > partition, or some such. Every Debian upgrade would run > > update-grub, and hang the system. > > > > Reported it, okay, but then as a workaround looked into > > LILO. It is *very* capable, boots my system without drama. > > > > What exactly do you need? > > I need capable, boots without drama, and for extra points, can do efi > (I hear elilo does that). Looks like I'll be trying LILO. > > Will Devuan have LILO, ELILO, and syslinux/extlinux as package options?
Hope so. I'm using lilo on the wheezy system I'm planning to upgrade. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
