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I'm pretty sure I poked in those very files, and some of them gave me the impression that they are generated by a script (hence "don't touch this"). Some of th

by clarry 12y ago

I'm pretty sure I poked in those very files, and some of them gave me the impression that they are generated by a script (hence "don't touch this"). Some of them gave me an impression they are read by some undocumented script. I still don't know what script. But it's been a while.

e12e 12y ago
It was messy (to a certain extent it still is). Reasons for GRUB(2) are mostly UEFI, multiboot support (eg: bsds, windows nt derivatives like modern windows). Grub fails the test of making simple things (as) simple (as possible). But it does support booting to space invaders. So there's a trade-off there, and I agree, it's not entirely clear much was gained from moving off of Lilo...