Linux Tyro said the following on 12/08/2011 06:32 AM:
Good question and I could have started it if I were knowing Linux like you people but unfortunately I don't know Linux but at least you all should do that!
I think you are so missing the point. Grub2 isn't about Linux. If you take a look at, for example, the development work being done for PXE booting, you'll see that booting can be used to boot anything your sweet heart desires, all versions of Windows Linux and many other things, not all of them operating systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment The remote host that a PXE device boots from need not be Linux, UNIX or Windows, nor the files it draws upon. The advantage PXE APIs have is that they don't have to worry about disk layout :-) If you look at LILO or either version of GRUB you'll see that they concern themselves with things like disk layout and with the low level machine architecture, the memory management hardware and virtual memory mapping. Some, but not all, kernel developers _might_ have to deal with _some_ of this, but for the most part even that esoteric breed don't have to face this. Application programmers, be they C++, LAMP, networking, all don't have to deal with these HARDWARE issues. So "programmers" in general are not going to be capable of dealing with GRUB. This is no insult to them. People like Per, myself and many others are experienced with many areas of Linux, but this aspect of _HARDWARE_ is a different matter. And the "learning curve" to come to deal with it is not so much a "curve" as a "Big Step". -- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Saint Jerome, Letter 48 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org