Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:48:40 -0000 > "dev1fanboy" <devuanfan...@startmail.com> wrote: > >> Hopefully something will happen with it, personally I'd use grub but >> it does some fancy stuff I'm not a fan of. > > Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors, nice > images, and hiding the fact that processes are being instantiated. > > What's so sad is that grub 1 was wonderful. One file, everything was > easy and obvious. Grub2 has different but similar executables, and you > go traipsing all over a tree of numbered files to change every little > thing, or else unauthorizedly change the already compiled version and > hope nothing overrides it.
JFTR: Systemd comes with its own boot loader[*] (no big surprise) and both grub1 and grub2 are (misguided) attempts at imitating a real firmware console on a PC. [*] Presumably, because the grub developers have (as far as I know) so far refused to implement device re-ordering, hence, there's no excuse for using 1024 character device names containing a random mix of characters and numbers :->. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
