From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:54:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201227205432.489888f5@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X+jfBK3qw/2nXyH+@waltdnes.org>
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:22:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with
> > it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are
> > you picking the boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to
> > mention the most bloated?
> >
> > Referencing your sig, GRUB is the desktop environment of boot
> > managers, the boot loader equivalent of emacs :)
>
> I believe grub only has to be set up once, unless you often change
> boot drives, etc. If it's "set it and forget it" for a single-user,
> single hard-drive system, I'm OK with a one-time complex set-up.
They all need to be set up once, whether the config is 6 lines or 260
lines - real examples here, not made up figures.
Hmm, it seems even systemd-boot's 6 lines for 2 kernels is excessive, I
no longer use rEFInd, but it's config file is still in /boot and it is ONE
line per kernel!
--
Neil Bothwick
Frog philosophy: Time's fun when you're having flies.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-27 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 6:28 [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions Walter Dnes
2020-12-26 6:39 ` cal
2020-12-26 10:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-26 12:52 ` Michael
2020-12-26 19:37 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-26 20:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-26 21:21 ` Dan Egli
2020-12-26 23:35 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-27 0:39 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-27 0:49 ` cal
2020-12-27 1:29 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-27 9:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-27 3:48 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-27 9:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-27 19:22 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-27 20:54 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-12-28 7:43 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-28 11:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-28 4:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-28 7:18 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-12-28 23:30 ` Dan Egli
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