It seems enough to me that extlinux is available if it is as easy to work with as it looks, grub will be around for a while so people have that.

I also note there is elilo for EFI, not sure how usable that is on traditional setups though.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:14 PM, Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
>> I don't think Grub2 is all about pretty colours though. The veteran
>> admin likes to have a bootloader which is easy to configure, but the
>> random admin, likes to have a working multi-boot bootloader at the end
>> of the installation.
>
> Indeed, and when ${random_admin} has a mix of md raid and lvm (and
> possibly other stuff as well), then either the bootloader has to support
> that - or ${random_admin} starts asking WTF? type questions.
>
> AIUI, if you use md and raid1, with metadata version 0.9, for /boot - then
> each member of the raid set contains a complete image of /boot which is
> safe to use read-only. So the bootloader doesn't need to understand md,
> and the rest can be taken care of in the initramfs/initrd (it's OK if said
> quickly and I slam the lid back down before the worms crawl out !)
> But try explaining the specific steps needed to achieve that to someone
> who is just "clicking the options" for an install.
>
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