Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:20:10 +0100 > Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors, > > > nice images, and hiding the fact that processes are being > > > instantiated. > > > > Grub is complex, but that's caused by what it tries to do (read the > > kernel image from real filesystems instead of a blockmap like lilo). > > It doesn't go beyond its scope, unlike systemd. > > The preceding paragraph was much more true of Grub1 than its gargantuan > spawn, Grub2. > > Grub1 read filesystems just fine. Grub2 has prioritized all sorts of > pretty, and the simplicity of Grub1 has been lost.
The grub developers wrote that they began grub2 due to limitations and maintenance problems with grub1. > SteveT > > Steve Litt > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
