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Grub2 is scary and complicated. Remove grub from the equation, and all the scary goes away.
by cwillu 6mo ago
Grub2 is scary and complicated. Remove grub from the equation, and all the scary goes away.
- nicman23 6mo agogrub is just a operating system. it is quite good when shit hits the fan
- creshal 6mo ago~90% of the failure modes grub can fix don't exist without grub. I can't remember any time when its needless complexity was actually a net benefit compared to literally any of its alternatives (and between gummiboot/syslinux/efilinux/isolinux/systemd-boot/efistub I've used a lot of them).
- nicman23 6mo agoi like grub, but i also remember pre-0.98 grub
- awesomeusername 6mo agoi love HN but also starting to think it's time for us oldies to have our own one: cost of entry, having a distant memory of booting linux from a floppy
- nicman23 6mo agoi have the memory of bios being so shit that i had to boot grub from a floppy to boot from a cd
- cwillu 6mo agoMy first linux system was a linux-on-a-floppy router that I ran on a spare 386 with two cards to provide NAT for my house, back in the days when internet providers tried to ban people for doing that.
- creshal 6mo agoGrub is really impressive in how it consistently spent the last 30 years focused on improving everything except the UX of the one workflow 99.99% of its involuntary users need it for (boot linux as reliably as possible, and make it easy to debug when it does not).