On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2008, at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Why are these linices hostile to each other? > > They don't agree on the best version and file layout for their > bootloaders. Bootloading and grub especially are among the most > harrowing aspects of running a Linux machine. There's room for > improvement, but nobody seems to be taking on the task. Last I > looked grub 3 was a rewrite that didn't support the most basic of > needs.
Grub 3 or grub 2? I thought 2 was the pie-in-the-sky rewrite that didn't actually suffice in many cases... At least, Fedora still ships a heavily HEAVILY patched grub 0.9.7, which is actually maintained in a public git tree now, and I believe used by at least a few other distributions. > Maybe the idea needs to be rethunk. Not the least of the problems > is dealing with the IBM PC BIOS/DOS constraints. rEFIt seems more > elegant (it's for EFI machines). Yeah, rEFIt looks slick (I have it on two of my Macs here), but EFI brings a whole host of other problems... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
