On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:46:13 -0400 > Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > >> > Fedora should really look into defaulting to syslinux. >> >> Doesn't support all the usecases we have, and it's not multi-arch. >> Grub2 has warts, but it's all around more flexible. > > We should be working on making syslinux work for all cases then.
Is there something stopping you? :) More specifically, I don't think syslinux will ever support e.g. powerpc or ARM (Aarch64) so it doesn't seem like a general purpose solution. I could be wrong. > Grub2 has more than warts, it's a total disaster. I have not found a > single user that likes grub2 (outside of the grub2 developers > themselves). > > The "oneshot" booting is totally broken, I could never get it to work > consistently, thus I had to abandon it for ktest. Grub2 may be > flexible, but it is overly complicated. It's horrible to do anything > but the "default" settings. We have essentially one person working on bootloaders and that person has to support them in RHEL too. I'm sure they'd appreciate help. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
