On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:51, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > walt wrote: > >> On 01/10/2011 01:37 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> pk wrote: >>> >>>> On 2011-01-10 14:05, walt wrote: >>>> >>>> You guys may be losing interest in grub2, but I'm having fun, so... >>>>> >>>> >> Although I've not been involved in this discussion I still enjoy your >>>> progress (I've been meaning to try out grub2 myself since grub1 is >>>> basically EOLed but haven't had the time yet)... please continue! >>>> >>> >> Same here. I'm noticing how complicated this thing is. >>> >> >> I'm sorry I've given that impression -- the complicated part is finding >> comprehensible examples to copy, but thanks to your previous links I'm >> gaining on it. I'm now able to write a functioning grub.cfg file for >> grub2, but I don't want to publish prematurely ;) >> > > It wasn't just you, it was other things I read too. > > >> Does it have audio too? >>> >> >> Yes, but very primitive. No speech, but you can give it a series of >> numbers representing tones and durations -- to make it sound like a >> video game arcade. If you really want to. But I don't. >> >> >> >> > Oh God, it can make sounds. O_O > > My first impression of grub2 was PAIN. In a foolish attempt to "beautify" my Desktop, I thought about installing a clean framebuffer logo for boot, and, why not, beautify the bootloader too.
Gosh, 2 hours spent in an effort to configure, useless. I don't remember the exact error, but an hour of trying and I quit. Well, it messed the whole boot, so it took me twice the time spent on configuring to get rid of the thing. I never realized how happy I was with simple grub. Gosh, I even missed LILO while fighting with grub2. And LILO was a pain too, but I knew that when I first had to use it. -- Daniel da Veiga
