Le 19/01/2016 17:02, Steve Litt a écrit :
Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors, nice
images, and hiding the fact that processes are being instantiated.
Someone said that the developpers of grub-0.9 (now Grub legacy) had
maintenance problems. Often, in this case, the best solution is to rewrite
completely the program.
I don't think Grub2 is all about pretty colours though. The veteran admin
likes to have a bootloader which is easy to configure, but the random admin,
likes to have a working multi-boot bootloader at the end of the installation.
Clearly the authors of Grub2 were not able to achieve both goals.
While Grub-0.9 was admin-friendly, the Debian installer (I don't know for
others) often failed to deliver a bootable system, and to preserve access to
the other installed OSes. With Grub2, a team of developpers has (rather well)
achieved the automation and relieved the distros of this burden. The admin is
now facing a black box, but the distros feel better.
Any tool providing an intelligible interface to this blackbox would be
welcome. Maybe Edward might want to write a howto...
Didier
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