On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:18:53 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > 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.
Same here, I messed up an installation trying different things because the grub2 splash would not work. Probably early days back then and this was a feature not working as it should. -- Regards, Mick
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