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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 22:11:00 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:08:16 -0700
Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:

> > At first glace, grub2 looks like a minature Unix installation whose
> > purpose is to boot a bigger Unix installation. =C2=A0It's got it's own
> > init system and it's own set of init scripts. =20
>=20
> That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have
> (OpenRC, SysV, systemd, Upstart), and it has scripts to *generate* the
> config file.
>=20
> The thing is that GRUB2 needs to understand several filesystems to
> grab the kernel image from. It also wants to be able to use a more
> interesting resolution than 640x480. This means that it has to
> reimplement all the code for any filesystem, and all the code for
> video handling.

Personally, I can't agree with this stance from the grub2 devs.

It's a bootloader. It is visible for 3 seconds at boot time.=20

For driving the screen it should just use whatever facilities the
firmware one layer below it provides.

--=20
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com