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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function. |
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> Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't |
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> understand OS concepts - it loads an OS. When that step is done, then and only |
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> then do OS concepts come into play. lilo doesn't even understand how to find a |
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> file on a disk, that's why the lilo command had to be run to tell the |
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> bootloader which sectors on disk it had to shove into memory. |
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> This confused people. It annoyed even more people who often forgot to run lilo |
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> before rebooting. So grub came along, it had the absolute minimum of OS-like |
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> features to find and load a kernel file. It needed it's own syntax of defining |
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> drive names, then would make it's way through the read-only fs it found there |
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> to find the kernel. It supported a small number of file systems, just enough |
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> so that a 50M partition would be usable on almost any platform. |
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> grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader, it's |
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> a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload! |
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> It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even has |
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> a truetype USE flag. |
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> Yes! Now my life is complete. I've been DYING for years to have a bootloader |
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> that can properly display anti-aliased fonts for the entire 2 seconds it's on- |
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> screen |
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Well, I have to say that for the moment, the old grub is working fine |
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here. Just like ntp, that may change next week. I just wonder how much |
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longer it will take before they get it stabilized and expect everyone to |
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switch to it? From my understanding, they are not doing much with the |
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old grub now so it should be to far off. |
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I don't like to think about the old lilo days. Bad memories. Reminds |
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me of xorg and hal. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |