Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0400 David Campbell davek...@archlinux.us wrote: Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400: If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream. I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for: - interactive

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:17:02 +0530 KESHAV P.R. skodab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I wanted to share my views on this whole discussion. Many people don't know the actual features and problems with individual boot-loaders. GRUB-Legacy - Kinda KISS (actually syslinux is more KISS)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 15:01, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: Hi Keshav, thanks for this overview. My notes: - grub-legacy is tricky to setup (from an aif POV, not from a user POV) - I accept patches for grub2 if they are reasonably sane/elegant From your overview, as well as

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:31:13 +0530 KESHAV P.R. skodab...@gmail.com wrote: This is really question about users who do not care about what bootloader they have in their system and simply select the 1st one in the menu. Especially true in case of newbies (most of them). I don't care if users

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 19:31, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:31:13 +0530 KESHAV P.R. skodab...@gmail.com wrote: This is really question about users who do not care about what bootloader they have in their system and simply select the 1st one in the menu.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread David Campbell
Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400: If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream. I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for: - interactive partitioning Because I was not too happy with doing interactive partitioning with