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On 2011-10-04 20:56, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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Replying two mails in one... |
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Dale: |
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>Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can you post your experience on the |
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>switching process? |
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I use it (1.99-rc1, which is gone from Portage) for booting my UEFI |
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(with GPT partition table) motherboard until I can get coreboot running |
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on it... :-) |
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Experience wise it's, well, not much difference than old grub, with the |
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exception of the change in paradigm: you don't edit the config file |
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directly but instead edit "pre-config" files in order to get a working |
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solution. For me the default settings work fine (well, I haven't been |
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able to change the resolution); it finds my installed kernels in /boot |
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and put's them in the boot list (the boot screen list) together with a |
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single user version for rescue operations. IMO, it's over-complicated (I |
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agree with Grant) but if the default settings works (with tweaks) for you... |
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>Was it difficult? Easy? Somewhere between? |
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Hm... Well, see above... |
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Canek: |
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> Me, I want my laptop/desktop computers to have the best resolution |
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> available from moment zero, even before loading the kernel, and not a |
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I agree with this sentiment although I think that the video firmware (or |
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motherboard firmware) should handle this... |
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> single flicker in my screen until my GNOME 3 is fully loaded. So I'm |
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Yes, agree again, although I think Gnome (2,3+) is a festering piece of |
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#%!&... :-) |
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> gonna play with grub2 (or /firstboot, if it materializes) until it's |
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Ok, cool. Please share your experiences. I'll try playing (when I can |
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find the time) with coreboot and FILO: |
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http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads#FILO |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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