On 2011-10-04 20:56, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Replying two mails in one...
Dale: >Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can you post your experience on the >switching process? I use it (1.99-rc1, which is gone from Portage) for booting my UEFI (with GPT partition table) motherboard until I can get coreboot running on it... :-) Experience wise it's, well, not much difference than old grub, with the exception of the change in paradigm: you don't edit the config file directly but instead edit "pre-config" files in order to get a working solution. For me the default settings work fine (well, I haven't been able to change the resolution); it finds my installed kernels in /boot and put's them in the boot list (the boot screen list) together with a single user version for rescue operations. IMO, it's over-complicated (I agree with Grant) but if the default settings works (with tweaks) for you... >Was it difficult? Easy? Somewhere between? Hm... Well, see above... Canek: > Me, I want my laptop/desktop computers to have the best resolution > available from moment zero, even before loading the kernel, and not a I agree with this sentiment although I think that the video firmware (or motherboard firmware) should handle this... > single flicker in my screen until my GNOME 3 is fully loaded. So I'm Yes, agree again, although I think Gnome (2,3+) is a festering piece of #%!&... :-) > gonna play with grub2 (or /firstboot, if it materializes) until it's Ok, cool. Please share your experiences. I'll try playing (when I can find the time) with coreboot and FILO: http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads#FILO Best regards Peter K
