| 1 |
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net> wrote: |
| 2 |
> |
| 3 |
> The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the |
| 4 |
> other side of the issue. |
| 5 |
> We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot |
| 6 |
> install on a partition. What makes it not install is the installer that |
| 7 |
> refuses to install it. |
| 8 |
> One one install I was able to do this (with Fedora) by passing an argument |
| 9 |
> to force it to install on the partition. |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> As another gentoo user says so well, it is them wanting to be the only |
| 12 |
> bootloader, so Microsoft. |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> We want to be free from Microsoft, not just replace a dictator with another |
| 15 |
> one. |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> You may love it but there are many of us who hate it with a passion. |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> The bottom line is that we have to use grub 1 or lilo until grub 2 is fixed |
| 20 |
> or forked by someone who is interested to fix it. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
Whether it's a lie or not, the fact is that it isn't something that |
| 23 |
the grub developers want to deal with. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
The ext4 developer called the grub2 developers paranoid and |
| 26 |
emotionally insecure a few years ago when this was brought to him but |
| 27 |
no one can force them to re-add to grub2 what they consider a |
| 28 |
misfeature of grub1. |
Archives