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Alan McKinnon said: |
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> syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, |
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> liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for |
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> desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to |
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> document them. |
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I use syslinux everywhere, and on my desktop. It is already well |
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documented on their website and wiki. It is a family of bootloaders |
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that share similar config syntax for booting with PXE, CDROM, FAT |
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partitions, or EXT2 partitions. It's smaller, simpler, and doesn't |
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require a 32-bit build environment. Therefore making it much cleaner |
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for pure 64-bit systems. It also does not require an already |
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mounted /usr to configure it (as grub2 does). So quick fixes are |
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easier. |
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The handbook doesn't document it simply because the handbook is too |
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old, and hasn't been updated. But it is a very good choice |
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for bootloader even for a desktop system. |
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-- Keith |
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