It seems enough to me that extlinux is available if it is as easy to work with as it looks, grub will be around for a while so people have that.
I also note there is elilo for EFI, not sure how usable that is on traditional setups though. On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:14 PM, Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Indeed, and when ${random_admin} has a mix of md raid and lvm (and > possibly other stuff as well), then either the bootloader has to support > that - or ${random_admin} starts asking WTF? type questions. > > AIUI, if you use md and raid1, with metadata version 0.9, for /boot - then > each member of the raid set contains a complete image of /boot which is > safe to use read-only. So the bootloader doesn't need to understand md, > and the rest can be taken care of in the initramfs/initrd (it's OK if said > quickly and I slam the lid back down before the worms crawl out !) > But try explaining the specific steps needed to achieve that to someone > who is just "clicking the options" for an install. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Take back your privacy. Switch to www.StartMail.com _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
