Steve Litt wrote: > Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 17:39 -0500, 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. > > > > So, what's the problem with grub? > > No problem with Grub. Grub2 is the problem. Millions of files messing > with millions of variables, and sometime following the instructions of > which programs compile those files and which program puts it on the > mbr/guid or whatever it's called actually works. > > I can probably find you five different ways in the Internet to change > the font size on booting, and none of them works. > > Just like systemd, it's great if someone else does it for you, it's > horrific if you have to do some DIY.
Hi Steve, Beside the bug that caused me to jump ship, I didn't find GRUB too bad. Just instead of one config file you have lots of them. :^) The old GRUB with one config file was slightly more convenient. Getting a kind of command shell from GRUB is amazing, really very cool. However, there is a cost in complexity. Not everyone wants to learn all the ins and out of this large system. For Devuan, I would advocate and support a long-term interest in LILO. I think we would want to allow people solve their problems with less and simpler code. Joel > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
