Expanding on this: > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] grub2 upgrade fail (was Boycott Systemd) > From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:44 -0500 > To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org > > Antoine Martin <anto...@nagafix.co.uk> skribis: > > "Simple" and the large collection of scripts that is grub2 is not > > something I often hear in the same sentence ;) > > I don’t use any of the scripts, and just have a very simple, hand > edited grub config file. Lilo, however, has the huge advantage that it > tries to verify the config before it does anything hazardous. > > Grub 2 seems to me better than Grub 1 (though still not very good) if > you find yourself editing things at the Grub command line. However, if > it does not work on a given computer then this is what I call ‘a fact > of life’. :)
See http://exherbo.org/docs/install-guide.html for how simple it can be to use GRUB 2, if you just ignore the hoopla. My own config is kmore complicated; it installs some fonts and has entries for memtest; but these are minor niceties. (Completely avoiding initrd by simply putting / and /usr on one filesystem is another of those measures you wouldn’t think existed if your experience were entirely Ubuntu, etc.)
