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James Cloos schrieb: |
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> B> I would hesitate to say it's the *sanest* thing to do, but we |
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> should at B> least get it into ~arch and make sure our |
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> documentation is up to date. |
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> Actually, given grub2's crazy config, the real upgrade from grub1 |
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> is sys-boot/syslinux's extlinux(1). |
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> The configuration and operation styles are much more comfortable |
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> for those who are familiar with grub1. |
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> It would make a better default for x86/amd64 than grub1 or grub2. |
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Speaking as sys-boot/syslinux maintainer, I would like to see it |
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included in the official installation documentation. However there are |
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some differences between grub{,2} and syslinux/extlinux that could |
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block universal adoption. |
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Installation: |
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Syslinux installs into a partition which means that /boot must be on |
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one of the supported filesystems. Currently these are btrfs, ext2/3/4 |
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and vfat (ntfs support will come in the next release). Also this means |
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that /boot cannot reside on a logical partition. To my knowledge, |
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there are no plans to allow booting from LVM either. |
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Dual-booting: |
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Telling users to create GPT instead of MBR partitions could address |
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the logical partition issue, however this would make dual-booting |
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Windows difficult. And Windows has been observed to behave strangely |
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when its BCD is not on a partition which has the boot flag set. There |
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are workarounds but documenting them would increase the complexity of |
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the handbook. |
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EFI: |
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Syslinux does not boot on EFI yet. Not a big problem as UEFI will fall |
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back to BIOS mode but this can bite users on Apple hardware. |
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Xen: |
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Booting Xen generally works, but some specialties like Mini-OS aren't |
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supported and likely won't be in the near future. |
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tl;dr |
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Syslinux/extlinux can replace grub in many if not most cases. But for |
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a number of setups it is not well-suited. So a documented and stable |
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grub2 will still be needed. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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