On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:57:48 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-05-15, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I > >> never let it near my systems. > > > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > > > Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do everything > > itself - and if you've got at all a strange setup it makes a complete > > hash of it. > > Grub2 is a bit overblown, but it's quite usable as long as you stick > to a manually generated grub.cfg file and stay away from the > auto-magical disk-probing configuration script world-domination > scheme. Which rather defeats its object, doesn't it? Anyway, I use bootctl from the dreaded systemd. It enables me to choose a kernel at boot time, with no attempt to tell me what to do. All from small, simple files under /boot/loader/entries. Photo attached. -- Regards, Peter.