On 05/19/18 19:40, William Pitcock wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:15 PM, A. Wilcox <awil...@adelielinux.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is a notice to all Adélie Linux developers that we will be >> deprecating syslinux as of beta1, and it will not be shipping with 1.0. >> >> There are many reasons for this: >> >> * syslinux is not so maintained any more >> >> * syslinux does not work right on most (U)EFI machines, including actual >> Tiano machines, in addition to Apple machines >> >> * syslinux only boots x86 computers >> >> * GRUB 2 has better support for older BIOSes with finicky hard disk >> controllers / CD drives (for pmmx) >> >> * GRUB 2 is more customisable >> >> * GRUB 2 allows us to have actual menus on the boot CD, instead of >> potentially confusing "boot:" prompt or very limited syslinux menu.c32 >> >> If someone is aware of a computer that is bootable on syslinux and not >> GRUB 2, please reply ASAP so that we can either debug it and fix GRUB 2, >> or review our other options for such computers. Thank you. > > Should we push for this change to be in Alpine 3.9 too? My position > on extlinux was that it was mostly intended to be a replacement for > lilo. > > William
As a replacement to lilo, syslinux excels. Simple configuration, sparse prompt, small binary size, not maintained. ;) I don't know if GRUB 2 matches very well with Alpine's goals. grub-bios and syslinux have similar install sizes (both in the 4 MB range), but grub's common package is 13 MB extra. We're going with GRUB because it is user-friendly. I don't think servers really need good support for 1990s BIOSes or VESA boot menus. Best, --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Project Lead, Adélie Linux http://adelielinux.org
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