Check out syslinux if grub is too obnoxious. I've found it much more straight forward than grub.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 2:05 AM <mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: > So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually that > can handle LUKS partitions? No uefi, but GPT would be nice. The grub2 > "documentation" Reads like someone in the later stages of alzheimers' > trying to tell you how to get to the moon from scratch? The grub "legacy" > manual was at least usefull, the grub2 manual is incoherent and has no > logical structure or explanations in it. It's insane that a boot loader > takes 60 pages to document without actually explaning itself, barely useful > as a reference IF you new it anyway. > > Grub2 produces insanely huge configuration files, stuffed with > conditionals. It's obvious even the automatic tools don't know how to > configure it, It can't figure out how to boot redcore, on the same drive > though it thinks it can. It thinks you might want to try one version of > linux with the ram disk and kernel from another, which doesn't work very > well and WHY? > > any links to sane documentation or sane bootloaders greatly appreciated, > it'll be months before i can work on my own bootloader or extend one that > makes sense out side of a corporate server farm or randomly assorted > desktops that have to all work with the same config file (possibly because > grub2 is deciding how to work every time it loads). > > Yeah, I hate grub2. I"m very willing to learn gentoo, but it does make > some sense and there are articles that actually explain things online. I > can't find anything usefull about grub2 other than "DON'T MANUALLY EDIT > THIS FILE", if it's not human editable and understandable why even bother > to have it in human readable text? > > > "Would you like to see us rule again, my friend? All you have to do is > follow the worms." Pink Floyd, The Wall, Waiting for the worms >
