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I share the systemd concerns, but grub is too large and complex for many people. The first Linux distro I used still had LILO when it was being phased out. I f
by wayx 7y ago
I share the systemd concerns, but grub is too large and complex for many people.
The first Linux distro I used still had LILO when it was being phased out. I felt that I mastered LILO in a very short time.
I've never had that feeling with grub, which is a small OS with slightly chaotic config files spread out over many directories.
I found it easier to set up a direct EFIstub boot than reinstall grub via live CD when my BIOS somehow had broken the Debian install.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoI liked the old grub, personally; it, too, felt like a system that you could actually wrap your head around. While grub2 is probably more capable and better supported in terms of hooking into the system (since it's meant to regenerate the config out of scripts every time it needs to be configured), I personally moved on to syslinux, which is very much like the old grub was, albeit more capable.