On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:03:54 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I just need a program to boot the machine, that's all - I don't really
> care what colours it uses, what fonts it uses, it only needs to read a
> GPT partition table, and boot on utterly standard hardware.  I
> appreciate having a menu of different boot options (in my case, this
> just means different kernel versions), but everything else is just
> aesthetic sugar.  Too much sugar isn't good for one.

Use a UEFI boot manager, which is much simpler than GRUB. If you use
systemd you already have one if you installed it with USE="gnuefi".
Otherwise use the standalone version, systemd-boot. Or you can use
refind, but that is a bit more sugary.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly

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