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On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:03:54 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> I just need a program to boot the machine, that's all - I don't really |
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> care what colours it uses, what fonts it uses, it only needs to read a |
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> GPT partition table, and boot on utterly standard hardware. I |
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> appreciate having a menu of different boot options (in my case, this |
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> just means different kernel versions), but everything else is just |
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> aesthetic sugar. Too much sugar isn't good for one. |
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Use a UEFI boot manager, which is much simpler than GRUB. If you use |
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systemd you already have one if you installed it with USE="gnuefi". |
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Otherwise use the standalone version, systemd-boot. Or you can use |
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refind, but that is a bit more sugary. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly |
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