On 01/10/16 10:03, Rick Moen wrote:
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.
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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 don't want to use a complex lump of software, but grub2 seems to be
what works so I use it
I prefer lilo, I have used old grub, but for my uefi laptop it is grub2,
and other than elilo I know of nothing else that might work.
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.
Linux and macs mainly works. My iMac is 10 years old with a 32bit uefi
implementation - it fights you all the way, but it can be done. For
debian you start with squeeze because nothing newer will boot.
DaveT
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