On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:08:16 -0700 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > At first glace, grub2 looks like a minature Unix installation whose > > purpose is to boot a bigger Unix installation. It's got it's own > > init system and it's own set of init scripts. > > That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have > (OpenRC, SysV, systemd, Upstart), and it has scripts to *generate* the > config file. > > The thing is that GRUB2 needs to understand several filesystems to > grab the kernel image from. It also wants to be able to use a more > interesting resolution than 640x480. This means that it has to > reimplement all the code for any filesystem, and all the code for > video handling. Personally, I can't agree with this stance from the grub2 devs. It's a bootloader. It is visible for 3 seconds at boot time. For driving the screen it should just use whatever facilities the firmware one layer below it provides. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
