On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you > > say how? > > Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config file. > > *** > > Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is > better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. > > I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a > configuration that is so convoluted that it *has to* be generated by > running a set of scripts makes no sense at all. I thought the days of m4 > and sendmail.cf were over a long time ago... > > I am sure grub2 can be made to work, but for a piece of software as > vital as a boot loader, that level of complexity in my opinion is > totally unreasonable and impossible to justify. > > andrea >
You have a point. I'm sure grub or something like it, will be developed as an alternative to grub2, just as various alternative DM's are. As for me, I don't really care, just as long as I can boot the damn kernel by typing a few commands at a grub prompt, I'm happy. ;) Terry
