On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 12:12:48 -0400 Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:46:13 -0400 > > Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > >> > Fedora should really look into defaulting to syslinux. > >> > >> Doesn't support all the usecases we have, and it's not multi-arch. > >> Grub2 has warts, but it's all around more flexible. > > > > We should be working on making syslinux work for all cases then. > > Is there something stopping you? :) Yes, it's called a day job that takes up most my time ;-) I'd love to work more on it. I just don't have the time to do so. > > > Grub2 has more than warts, it's a total disaster. I have not found a > > single user that likes grub2 (outside of the grub2 developers > > themselves). > > > > The "oneshot" booting is totally broken, I could never get it to work > > consistently, thus I had to abandon it for ktest. Grub2 may be > > flexible, but it is overly complicated. It's horrible to do anything > > but the "default" settings. > > We have essentially one person working on bootloaders and that person > has to support them in RHEL too. I'm sure they'd appreciate help. I'd love to. But there's a bunch of other things I need to do first before I ever get a chance to work on that. I wonder how much time John Hawley has? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/