Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 02:13:05PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >>> All are in portage and easy to set up in a way that is shocking to anyone >>> used to GRUB. >> Grub's actually quite easy to set up if you skip all the auto-magical >> stuff and just manually create a grub.cfg file. > I always thought GRUB was very pleasant to configure, albeit it is the > only > modern bootloader I've used with Linux. It has some quirks for older > hardware, > but the Gentoo handbook has always had good coverage for ninety-nine percent > of > use-cases [1], with a lot of additional information on the dedicated wiki > page > [2]. > > Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit > configuration > files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO. As > for > versatility, I don't think anything can touch GRUB; I've had > surprising > successes with it on some very peculiar/arcane/archaic systems. > > [1] > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Default:_GRUB2 > [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 >
I don't recall ever having issues with grub2 or the older one either. As far as booting, my issue is those init thingys. I don't like those and I've had a lot of trouble making one that works and had them to fail when booting. If I could wave a magic wand, the init thingys would go poof. One thing I don't like much about grub2, it tries to be fancy. It's a bootloader not a self driving car. That said, I've thought about looking for a replacement for grub. I did like the old grub a lot. For me, it was dang near drop dead simple. If I found something more like the old grub, well, I'd find that interesting to look into. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Noticed Seamonkey is being a know it all, as usual. Manually forcing text only. Now where's my hammer!!!
