Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

[Michel Catudal <mcatudal@comcast.net>]

Le 2015-08-27 13:16, Alan Mackenzie a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:50:15PM +0000, mcatudal@comcast.net wrote:
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> The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
> Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control
> of the PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use
> to boot Operating systems on my computer?
> Just to point out that the unparliamentary language is not going to
> contribute towards any solution.  For all we know, some of the relevant
> maintainers might be Gentoo users subscribed to this list, and slagging
> them off isn't helpful.

The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the other side of the issue.
We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot install on a partition. What makes it not install is the installer that refuses to install it.
One one install I was able to do this (with Fedora) by passing an argument to force it to install on the partition.

As another gentoo user says so well, it is them wanting to be the only bootloader, so Microsoft.

We want to be free from Microsoft, not just replace a dictator with another one.

You may love it but there are many of us who hate it with a passion.

The bottom line is that we have to use grub 1 or lilo until grub 2 is fixed or forked by someone who is interested to fix it.

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