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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: |
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> > PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you |
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> > say how? |
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> Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config file. |
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> *** |
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> Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is |
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> better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. |
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> I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a |
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> configuration that is so convoluted that it *has to* be generated by |
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> running a set of scripts makes no sense at all. I thought the days of m4 |
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> and sendmail.cf were over a long time ago... |
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> I am sure grub2 can be made to work, but for a piece of software as |
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> vital as a boot loader, that level of complexity in my opinion is |
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> totally unreasonable and impossible to justify. |
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> andrea |
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You have a point. I'm sure grub or something like it, will be developed as |
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an alternative to grub2, just as various alternative DM's are. As for me, I |
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don't really care, just as long as I can boot the damn kernel by typing a |
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few commands at a grub prompt, I'm happy. ;) |
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Terry |
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