On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:46:01 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is it just me, or is Grub2 as complex and error prone as systemd?
> >
> > I'm wondering if we can have alternate boot loaders.
>
> GRUB is brilliant, and complicated. I recently had an issue
> with update-grub hanging on trying to read from a swap
> partition, or some such. Every Debian upgrade would run
> update-grub, and hang the system.
>
> Reported it, okay, but then as a workaround looked into
> LILO. It is *very* capable, boots my system without drama.
>
> What exactly do you need?

I need capable, boots without drama, and for extra points, can do efi
(I hear elilo does that). Looks like I'll be trying LILO.

Will Devuan have LILO, ELILO, and syslinux/extlinux as package options?

Thanks,

SteveT

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