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Expanding on this: |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] grub2 upgrade fail (was Boycott Systemd) |
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> From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> |
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> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:44 -0500 |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk> skribis: |
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> > "Simple" and the large collection of scripts that is grub2 is not |
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> > something I often hear in the same sentence ;) |
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> I don’t use any of the scripts, and just have a very simple, hand |
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> edited grub config file. Lilo, however, has the huge advantage that it |
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> tries to verify the config before it does anything hazardous. |
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> Grub 2 seems to me better than Grub 1 (though still not very good) if |
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> you find yourself editing things at the Grub command line. However, if |
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> it does not work on a given computer then this is what I call ‘a fact |
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> of life’. :) |
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See http://exherbo.org/docs/install-guide.html for how simple it can |
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be to use GRUB 2, if you just ignore the hoopla. My own config is |
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kmore complicated; it installs some fonts and has entries for memtest; |
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but these are minor niceties. |
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(Completely avoiding initrd by simply putting / and /usr on one |
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filesystem is another of those measures you wouldn’t think existed if |
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your experience were entirely Ubuntu, etc.) |
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