On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Guido Berhoerster
* Yamaban
[2013-02-04 14:10]: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:54, Cristian Rodríguez
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
I'm a big fan of using extlinux - I've moved all of my machines over from grub2 to extlinux, except for the one UEFI machine I have. grub(1) was nice - easy to use, consistent, functional. grub2 - in my experience - is picky, very inconsistent, and very complicated. Just look at it's configuration file! I'd be interested in collaborating with people regarding adding extlinux/syslinux support to perl-Bootloader, yast2-bootloader, etc... However, in all honestly, why don't we just add support for grubby? Grubby worked just fine setting up extlinux when using Fedora, and it fulfills a similar role as perl-Bootloader. -- Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org