Quoting Dave Turner ([email protected]): > short answer: > a boot-loader should boot any hardware I choose to install it on. > If that means it has to be a complex lump of software - so be it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For my part, you are _absolutely_ welcome to adopt and use a complex lump of software that is capable of booting 'any hardware you choose to install it on'. I would not dream of standing in your way of making your system as complex, overengineered, and utterly byzantine as you wish it to be, and consider to your taste for whatever reason. Fortunately, there are multiple bootloaders, quite a number of them even well-packaged, so _both_ people who insist on extremely complex bootloaders _and_ people who like ones properly compliant with the Unix philosophy can both simultaneously be happy. > Now I am preparing my old iMac for devuan. Hmm, I haven't actually installed Linux on an iMac in a dog's age. Maybe someone else has recent experience. I think I used the rEFIt bootloader, and don't remember any particular problems. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
