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On 01/09/2011 01:11 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> walt wrote: |
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<my grub recipe book snipped for brevity> |
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> This sounds about as complicated as lilo. |
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Much more complicated, but also more nifty :) |
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> Is this going to end up like hal? |
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I certainly hope so! |
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> You know, so complicated that no one can use the thing and they have to start over again? |
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<rant> |
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This mess goes back to IBM's decision to use the Intel 8086 CPU in their |
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shiny new PC and then hire Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write/steal DOS. |
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The result was a brain-dead booting scheme which has been holding back the |
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Intel/x86 world to this very day. (But they all made a huge bundle of cash |
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along the way.) |
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Intel has been trying ever since to correct those early wrong choices by |
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inventing stuff like ACPI and EFI and GPT, et al, but it's been a long time |
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coming. |
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Meanwhile we have a truckload of hacks like lilo, grub1, grub2, syslinux, not |
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to mention M$ boot loaders, which morph with every new release of Windows. |
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</rant> |
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(Corrections to my historical mis-recollections are welcome, of course :) |
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