was: Dual boot linices?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:

>
> On Oct 21, 2008, at 17:02, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
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>> Why are these linices hostile to each other?
>
> They don't agree on the best version and file layout for their  
> bootloaders.  Bootloading and grub especially are among the most  
> harrowing aspects of running a Linux machine.  There's room for  
> improvement, but nobody seems to be taking on the task.  Last I  
> looked grub 3 was a rewrite that didn't support the most basic of  
> needs.

Grub 3 or grub 2? I thought 2 was the pie-in-the-sky rewrite that  
didn't actually suffice in many cases... At least, Fedora still ships  
a heavily HEAVILY patched grub 0.9.7, which is actually maintained in  
a public git tree now, and I believe used by at least a few other  
distributions.

> Maybe the idea needs to be rethunk.  Not the least of the problems  
> is dealing with the IBM PC BIOS/DOS constraints.  rEFIt seems more  
> elegant (it's for EFI machines).

Yeah, rEFIt looks slick (I have it on two of my Macs here), but EFI  
brings a whole host of other problems...

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Jarod Wilson
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