Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:51, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> walt wrote:
>
>> On 01/10/2011 01:37 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> pk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2011-01-10 14:05, walt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  You guys may be losing interest in grub2, but I'm having fun, so...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>  Although I've not been involved in this discussion I still enjoy your
>>>> progress (I've been meaning to try out grub2 myself since grub1 is
>>>> basically EOLed but haven't had the time yet)... please continue!
>>>>
>>>
>>  Same here. I'm noticing how complicated this thing is.
>>>
>>
>> I'm sorry I've given that impression -- the complicated part is finding
>> comprehensible examples to copy, but thanks to your previous links I'm
>> gaining on it.   I'm now able to write a functioning grub.cfg file for
>> grub2, but I don't want to publish prematurely ;)
>>
>
> It wasn't just you, it was other things I read too.
>
>
>>  Does it have audio too?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but very primitive.  No speech, but you can give it a series of
>> numbers representing tones and durations -- to make it sound like a
>> video game arcade.  If you really want to.  But I don't.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Oh God, it can make sounds.  O_O
>
>
My first impression of grub2 was PAIN.
In a foolish attempt to "beautify" my Desktop, I thought about installing a
clean framebuffer logo for boot, and, why not, beautify the bootloader too.

Gosh, 2 hours spent in an effort to configure, useless. I don't remember the
exact error, but an hour of trying and I quit. Well, it messed the whole
boot, so it took me twice the time spent on configuring to get rid of the
thing.

I never realized how happy I was with simple grub. Gosh, I even missed LILO
while fighting with grub2. And LILO was a pain too, but I knew that when I
first had to use it.

-- 
Daniel da Veiga