On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:44:21AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the > increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*. > Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system > instead of just containing the minimal necessary functionality to > understand disk and partition formatting.
> Does Devuan support this > trend? Does it plan to write or fork its own boot-loader? As far as I > am concerned, as long as a boot-loader can read GPT and MSDOS disks > plus extN partitions, that should be enough. Here are some reasons for the extra features/complexity of grub: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164123/what-are-the-advantages-of-grub-over-lilo I'm personally happy with lilo, and Devuan allows me to use it. Maybe grub is preferred because recompiling a kernel or init ram disk risks making a lilo system unbootable. Joel > Edward > > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > > Albert Einstein > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
