On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100
> 
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
> > > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
> > > desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to
> > > document them.
> > 
> > One of the main strengths of {sys,iso,ext}linux is in demonstrating
> > how simple and well-documented GRUB is by comparison.
> 
> That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call
> grub "simple" and "well-documented"
> 
> Usually, grub is anything but  :-)

Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at least GRUB legacy was.  I 
haven't yet delved at any depth into GRUB2, which is of course more 
complicated than its predecessor.

PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more verbose 
output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
-- 
Regards,
Mick