Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 23 Apr 2014, at 17:33, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: However, a lot of experienced Linux users prefer Syslinux. I'd like to revisit syslinux at some point. It works well on boot USBs etc. Add my voice to the chorus of folks not happy with grub2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Kruppt
On 2014-04-23, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as Windows

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread maderios
On 04/23/2014 06:18 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one big one, which acts as the config. I don't mind Hi You need to edit only one file: /etc/default/grub Then update-grub and it works... -- Maderios -- To

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Grub used to be good software. Predictable, non-surprising, one config file you edited with an editor. Those days are gone. Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0200, maderios wrote: On 04/23/2014 06:18 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one big one, which acts as the config. I don't mind Hi You need to edit only one file:

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Kruppt krupp...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 2014-04-23, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't want to wade through

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0200, maderios wrote: On 04/23/2014 06:18 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get processed into one big one, which acts as

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 10:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Kruppt krupp...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 2014-04-23, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:18:50 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote: I considered going back to LILO, but it still has no understanding of filesystems: It's easy to bork and hard to fix. Not as hard as Grub 2 though. I did switch back from grub2 to lilo, and I'm glad I did. I actually like lilo's

Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as Windows Vista and that occurrence of error message. So what's the

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 12:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as Windows Vista

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't want to wade through seven files to turn those things off. Basically, I'd like something

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 23:25 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't want to wade through seven

Re: Alternatives to grub and lilo? was grub2 menu problems

2014-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 04/23/2014 09:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as Windows Vista and that