[plug] Grub 2

[Richard Meyer]

On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 18:01 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> writes:
> > On 11/27/10 07:44, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> >> Jim Householder<nofixed at westnet.com.au>  writes:
> >>
> >>> I've just had my first experience with grub2.  While I just had a quick look
> >>> at its configuration files, it looks like they have turned a simple file,
> >>> grub.conf (or menu.lst), into a set of nightmarish shell scripts.
> >>
> >> They didn't, though many of the things that *build* the configuration file
> >> have turned into a set of shell scripts.  Grub 2 itself has a similar-ish
> >> configuration language to Grub 1 - save the addition of basic scripting
> >> support.
> >>
> >>> I'll have another look tomorrow to see why I should not replace it with
> >>> version 0.97.
> >>
> >> Because 0.97 is effectively unmaintained, so no one is continuing development
> >> of it?
> >>
> >> Because 0.97 doesn't support booting from RAID, LVM, or other modern
> >> configurations other than by side-effect.
> >>
> >> Because your upstream distribution decided to use GRUB 2, so unless you know
> >> what technical motivations them you might want to assume there are other good
> >> reasons?
> >>
> >> Because you will have to continue to work, as time goes on, to keep using that
> >> because other things are going to assume, more and more, that GRUB 2 is
> >> installed?
> >
> > I suppose...  Once again, I'm being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the
> > present!  Thanks Daniel.  Good points.
> 
> FWIW, I also don't like grub2 very much. ;)
>         Daniel
> 
> I just accepted it because of the above.


Bring back the boot loader that anyone could understand -
LILO!!   ;-)  , and CP/M and DOS 1.1 - who needs directories - although
1.1 did bring the advantage that it gave you 9 sectors on your diskettes
instead of 8 and gave you a whopping 360 KB on a double sided disk - but
I highjack the discussion, which I suspect has reached its logical
conclusion already.

Ah the good old days - Computing by Assembler and testosterone ....  ;-)







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