Author: Joel Roth Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] lilo development has ended
Steve Litt wrote: > 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.
The grub developers wrote that they began grub2 due
to limitations and maintenance problems with grub1.
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 >
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