On 01/09/2011 01:11 PM, Dale wrote:
walt wrote:
<my grub recipe book snipped for brevity>
This sounds about as complicated as lilo.
Much more complicated, but also more nifty :)
Is this going to end up like hal?
I certainly hope so! > You know, so complicated that no one can use the thing and they have to start over again? <rant> This mess goes back to IBM's decision to use the Intel 8086 CPU in their shiny new PC and then hire Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write/steal DOS. The result was a brain-dead booting scheme which has been holding back the Intel/x86 world to this very day. (But they all made a huge bundle of cash along the way.) Intel has been trying ever since to correct those early wrong choices by inventing stuff like ACPI and EFI and GPT, et al, but it's been a long time coming. Meanwhile we have a truckload of hacks like lilo, grub1, grub2, syslinux, not to mention M$ boot loaders, which morph with every new release of Windows. </rant> (Corrections to my historical mis-recollections are welcome, of course :)
