On 05/02/13 00:54, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
- Yamaban <foerster@lisas.de> [2013-02-04 14:10]:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:54, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@...> wrote:
On 02/04/2013 09:19 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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. True. Basil, please show us a bootloader as simple as gummiboot for normal BIOS and you will be the hero of many.
There are many days were I would prefer LILO over Grub (1 or 2).
A question to the more knowledgeable: Would "syslinux" derivate "extlinux" [1] be able to fill this role? It already fills this role for probably 95% of all usecases*. It doesn't have extensive filesystem support (only ext4 and btrfs) but then you can use a boot partition as with grub1.
[*] notable exceptions are TPM support which I use and which is only supported by TrustedGRUB, a fork of grub1, and support for EFI, but that is already in the works for syslinux as well; so the overengineered monstrosity that is grub2 is pretty redundant and hopefully soon completely irrelevant
The best description of grub2 I have seen: "overengineered monstrosity". But you know, all this is now *REALLY* confusing the whole picture - now there is TrustedGRUB :'( . *WHERE* are we heading with this grub/grub2/gummiboot/TrustedGRUB thing? Could someone on The Board come out with a definitive statement and also give some media interviews about this whole situation so that people know where openSUSE stands on all of this and what it is planning to use as the default bootloader in openSUSE? Pretty please? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.0 & kernel 3.7.5-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org