Author: Isaac Dunham Date: To: Steve Litt CC: dng Subject: Re: [Dng] Boot loader?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 05:39:28PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all,
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> Is it just me, or is Grub2 as complex and error prone as systemd?
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> I'm wondering if we can have alternate boot loaders.
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> SteveT
Besides (e)lilo, there's (sys|ext|iso)linux and grub4dos-chenall.
grub4dos is a superset of grub legacy: it supports boot from ntfs,
loading a DOS kernel, and find --set-root among other things.
The grub4dos maintainer said "GRUB2 does what I'm after, project
retired", but someone involved in more Windows-oriented projects
picked it up because grub2 is not a trivial update for many projects
that use grub4dos.