Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread David Campbell
Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400: > If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream. > I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for: > - interactive partitioning Because I was not too happy with doing interactive partitioning with

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 19:31, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:31:13 +0530 > "KESHAV P.R." wrote: > >> This is really question about users who do not care about what >> bootloader they have in their system and simply select the 1st one in >> the menu. Especially true in case of n

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:31:13 +0530 "KESHAV P.R." wrote: > This is really question about users who do not care about what > bootloader they have in their system and simply select the 1st one in > the menu. Especially true in case of newbies (most of them). I don't care if users break their instal

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 15:01, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > Hi Keshav, thanks for this overview. > > My notes: > - grub-legacy is tricky to setup (from an aif POV, not from a user POV) > - I accept patches for grub2 if they are reasonably sane/elegant > > From your overview, as well as Pierres firs

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:17:02 +0530 "KESHAV P.R." wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to share my views on this whole discussion. Many > people don't know the actual features and problems with individual > boot-loaders. > > GRUB-Legacy > > - Kinda KISS (actually syslinux is more KISS) > - Easy

Re: [arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-03-27 Thread KESHAV P.R.
Hi all, I wanted to share my views on this whole discussion. Many people don't know the actual features and problems with individual boot-loaders. GRUB-Legacy - Kinda KISS (actually syslinux is more KISS) - Easy to setup and configure - Simple config file - text file based - Multi-partit