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On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 02:13:05PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > All are in portage and easy to set up in a way that is shocking to anyone |
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> > used to GRUB. |
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> Grub's actually quite easy to set up if you skip all the auto-magical |
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> stuff and just manually create a grub.cfg file. |
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I always thought GRUB was very pleasant to configure, albeit it is the only |
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modern bootloader I've used with Linux. It has some quirks for older hardware, |
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but the Gentoo handbook has always had good coverage for ninety-nine percent of |
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use-cases [1], with a lot of additional information on the dedicated wiki page |
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[2]. |
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Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit configuration |
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files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO. As for |
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versatility, I don't think anything can touch GRUB; I've had surprising |
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successes with it on some very peculiar/arcane/archaic systems. |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Default:_GRUB2 |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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