On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 12:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:54:22 +0600 > Muntasim Ul Haque <tranjees...@inventati.org> wrote: > > > When I press Enter then it boots into Windows 8 without any problem. > > So I don't have any big issue here except Windows 8 is detected as > > Windows Vista and that occurrence of error message. So what's the > > remedy? > > Grub used to be good software. Predictable, non-surprising, one config > file you edited with an editor. Those days are gone. > > Now, with grub 2, I need to be an expert on seven or so files that get > processed into one big one, which acts as the config. I don't mind > acquiring expertise for something important like LaTeX for writing > books or Python for making my computer do my bidding, but I don't want > to spend hours or days gaining expertise just for a program telling the > computer the kernel and initrd locations, and a few other things. With > gui, splash screens, frame-buffers, and all sorts of other gobblty-gook. > > I considered going back to LILO, but it still has no understanding of > filesystems: It's easy to bork and hard to fix. Not as hard as Grub 2 > though. > > Is there a simpler bootloader that works with Linux? I don't want GUI. > I don't want a framebuffer. I don't want a splash screen. And I don't > want to wade through seven files to turn those things off. Basically, > I'd like something like LILO that understands ext4.
Pff, I'm using grub2 and I edit grub.cfg directly. However, a lot of experienced Linux users prefer Syslinux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398270782.4909.7.camel@archlinux
