* Basil Chupin
On 04/02/13 23:54, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 02/04/2013 09:19 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=99636
BC
Grub2 will be used on machines that have no UEFI boot, that is. most less-than-current hardware.
It is *not* dead, it is just that grub will not be used when a dramatically simple solution like gummiboot is available.
"Gummiboot is an open source boot loader for systems using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Developed by the Red Hat employees Kay Sievers and Harald Hoyer, it is intended to be a minimal alternative to GNU GRUB that "just works"—it automatically detects bootable images (including Linux kernel images, operating systems, and other boot loaders), does not require a configuration file, provides a basic menu interface, and can also integrate with systemd to provide performance data."[1]
If it "just works", detects bootable images and does not require a configuration file then why need grub2 and all of its plethora of convoluted cfg etc files?
In case of a UEFI system you probably don't, and for legacy systems probably neither if YaST had first class support for syslinux. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org