On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:42:22 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did > > > > opine thusly: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function. > >>> > >>> Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't > >>> understand OS concepts - it loads an OS. When that step is done, then > >>> and only then do OS concepts come into play. lilo doesn't even > >>> understand how to find a file on a disk, that's why the lilo command > >>> had to be run to tell the bootloader which sectors on disk it had to > >>> shove into memory. > >>> > >>> This confused people. It annoyed even more people who often forgot to > >>> run lilo before rebooting. So grub came along, it had the absolute > >>> minimum of OS-like features to find and load a kernel file. It needed > >>> it's own syntax of defining drive names, then would make it's way > >>> through the read-only fs it found there to find the kernel. It > >>> supported a small number of file systems, just enough so that a 50M > >>> partition would be usable on almost any platform. > >>> > >>> grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a > >>> bootloader, it's a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload! > >>> > >>> It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild > >>> even has a truetype USE flag. > >>> > >>> Yes! Now my life is complete. I've been DYING for years to have a > >>> bootloader that can properly display anti-aliased fonts for the entire > >>> 2 seconds it's on- screen > >> > >> Well, I have to say that for the moment, the old grub is working fine > >> here. Just like ntp, that may change next week. I just wonder how much > >> longer it will take before they get it stabilized and expect everyone to > >> switch to it? From my understanding, they are not doing much with the > >> old grub now so it should be to far off. > >> > >> I don't like to think about the old lilo days. Bad memories. Reminds > >> me of xorg and hal. o_O > > > > At least you didn't have to deal with booting linux off a floppy > > I had to deal with windoze 3.1 tho. I did boot Linux off a floppy one > time. That was a long time ago to. It worked to my surprise. It > wasn't speedy but it worked.
SBM? It was a beauty! -- Regards, Mick
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