Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:24:23
Message-Id: CAOdo=SxUvADiJPbue8O=M2QXw45g3StC8fguApngQjXyggCQ2Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! by Alan Grimes
1 On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote:
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4 > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first
5 > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently
6 > some users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size
7 > problem but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done
8 > nothing whatsoever. =(
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10 That's grub1 (which doesn't understand efi). grub2 is still being developed.
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13 > I thought maybe I could go simple and use something like elilo.
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15 Unfortunately elilo's been abandoned.