Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

[Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@gmail.com>]

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Check out syslinux if grub is too obnoxious. I've found it much more
straight forward than grub.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 2:05 AM <mad.scientist.at.large@tutanota.com> wrote:

> So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually that
> can handle LUKS partitions?  No uefi, but GPT would be nice.  The grub2
> "documentation"  Reads like someone in the later stages of alzheimers'
> trying to tell you how to get to the moon from scratch?  The grub "legacy"
> manual was at least usefull, the grub2 manual is incoherent and has no
> logical structure or explanations in it.  It's insane that a boot loader
> takes 60 pages to document without actually explaning itself, barely useful
> as a reference IF you new it anyway.
>
> Grub2 produces insanely huge configuration files, stuffed with
> conditionals.  It's obvious even the automatic tools don't know how to
> configure it, It can't figure out how to boot redcore, on the same drive
> though it thinks it can.  It thinks you might want to try one version of
> linux with the ram disk and kernel from another, which doesn't work very
> well and WHY?
>
> any links to sane documentation or  sane bootloaders greatly appreciated,
> it'll be months before i can work on my own bootloader or extend one that
> makes sense out side of a corporate server farm or randomly assorted
> desktops that have to all work with the same config file (possibly because
> grub2 is deciding how to work every time it loads).
>
> Yeah, I hate grub2.  I"m very willing to learn gentoo,  but it does make
> some sense and there are articles that actually explain things online.  I
> can't find anything usefull about grub2 other than "DON'T MANUALLY EDIT
> THIS FILE", if it's not human editable and understandable why even bother
> to have it in human readable text?
>
>
> "Would you like to see us rule again, my friend?   All you have to do is
> follow the worms."  Pink Floyd, The Wall, Waiting for the worms
>

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