On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:20:10 +0100
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors,
> > nice images, and hiding the fact that processes are being
> > instantiated.
>
> Grub is complex, but that's caused by what it tries to do (read the
> kernel image from real filesystems instead of a blockmap like lilo).
> It doesn't go beyond its scope, unlike systemd.

The preceding paragraph was much more true of Grub1 than its gargantuan
spawn, Grub2.

Grub1 read filesystems just fine. Grub2 has prioritized all sorts of
pretty, and the simplicity of Grub1 has been lost.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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