From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RxZxq-0001ih-Fl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:11:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B65ADE0B34; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A13E0A95 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrq13 with SMTP id rq13so1456871pbb.40 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:10:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=YcpvOOrEUYB3u3tmU1FJnbFvm82VRtXnlJfXBGxjsmM=; b=M2ml/lWpYbQJ31a5QWsuzsQtoOYLxiMi/PX5l4WtmbCjNpvSIGMVzihsuWNBnITd/N DkCj0u9wPf4aymrlh6t2QUSZoyFqWnkuMBqqOJxMeHG+/9K82HVSTZmeZ97tPiN2Xlny 12WabQIaGNqegiIGccE1sjysLercroTWgaUCk= Received: by 10.68.218.167 with SMTP id ph7mr984865pbc.110.1329293410566; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-69-109-46-155.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [69.109.46.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h6sm9110437pbg.5.2012.02.15.00.10.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:10:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:10:10 -0800 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2 Message-ID: <20120215081010.GA21186@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: <4F3A9FAA.9000504@binarywings.net> <4F3AA6C7.4050501@trausch.us> <4FEAA3B3-0A32-4347-9441-C0E3FE3E1F38@gmail.com> <4F3AB616.4050506@alyf.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F3AB616.4050506@alyf.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e1afbd1f-e786-4a4c-8e2d-ee0ce0d0cfea X-Archives-Hash: a71267ae4299f8e28dfb741c3ae0682f On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you > > say how? > > Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config file. > > *** > > Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is > better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. > > I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a > configuration that is so convoluted that it *has to* be generated by > running a set of scripts makes no sense at all. I thought the days of m4 > and sendmail.cf were over a long time ago... > > I am sure grub2 can be made to work, but for a piece of software as > vital as a boot loader, that level of complexity in my opinion is > totally unreasonable and impossible to justify. > > andrea > You have a point. I'm sure grub or something like it, will be developed as an alternative to grub2, just as various alternative DM's are. As for me, I don't really care, just as long as I can boot the damn kernel by typing a few commands at a grub prompt, I'm happy. ;) Terry