On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the > other side of the issue. > We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot > install on a partition. What makes it not install is the installer that > refuses to install it. > One one install I was able to do this (with Fedora) by passing an argument > to force it to install on the partition. > > As another gentoo user says so well, it is them wanting to be the only > bootloader, so Microsoft. > > We want to be free from Microsoft, not just replace a dictator with another > one. > > You may love it but there are many of us who hate it with a passion. > > The bottom line is that we have to use grub 1 or lilo until grub 2 is fixed > or forked by someone who is interested to fix it.
Whether it's a lie or not, the fact is that it isn't something that the grub developers want to deal with. The ext4 developer called the grub2 developers paranoid and emotionally insecure a few years ago when this was brought to him but no one can force them to re-add to grub2 what they consider a misfeature of grub1.
