On 2015-01-31 06:01, Joel Roth wrote:
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
Hello to all,
pardon me for intruding the discussion without a proper presentation,
about bootloaders I'm experimenting with iPXE, its a replacement for pxe
bootloader and it allows to load wireless drivers and netboot.
I know is not legacy bootloader, but I just wanted to point it out
because is utterly powerfull, like doing netboot from http/s, and not
many people as of yet knows about it, it even boot from floppy and UEFI
and has a interactive shell.
I would advocate what has already being state in dng, given the choice
let the users decide what they want.
Good day 2 all, and pardon the intrusion (and pardon me Joel for having
replied to you and not to the list).
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