You are correct, the good old BIOS was not pretty, but it worked and was simple enough one could understand it and its common failure modes. All the complexity

You are correct, the good old BIOS was not pretty, but it worked and was simple enough one could understand it and its common failure modes. All the complexity we keep piling up is going to come back and bite us eventually. I was just speaking of LILO vs grub, though. (I heard that grub is not pretty internally, but as a mere user, it has not given me trouble.)