On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:09:56PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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?

Hope so. I'm using lilo on the wheezy system I'm planning to upgrade.

-- hendrik