FWIW, I dislike GRUB for several reasons; it does far too much to be an improvement over a minimal payload and it does far too little te be an improvement over a Linux payload.
It duplicates lots of work already exists in other places and it has probably also duplicated some of the bugs. Not to mention the reliability problems I have had with GRUB a long time ago. A bootloader which spontaneously stops booting my system does not get a second chance. Sorry, that's just a waste of time. It could be argued that GRUB2 is not GRUB, but I don't think GRUB2 is an improvement. Paul Menzel wrote: > in my experience GRUB is a great payload and it makes sense to load > it directly and let coreboot run the VGA Option ROM/Video BIOS. I disagree strongly that it makes sense. coreboot doesn't provide a BIOS environment and is thus not suitable for option ROM execution. When it happens to work that is clearly a corner case. Recommending a corner case (requiring discovery of details of each option ROM) for the general case just is not good advice. //Peter
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