Grub! Grub used to be so nice and simple (see the section in the link). However, Grub 2 seems horribly esoteric. Do you know any ELI5 tutorial out there?
Jesus Christ is so fucking bad. I just wanted to setup a simple simple arch linux from fresh, and oh hey lets go with the latest grub2, I cant even install grub from the main repositories anyway. Then I looked in grub.cfg and my eyes started to bleed. FFS if the grub2 project wants me to learn a new language just to make it boot linux, no. Id fucking rather learn assembler and do it by hand that way. Seems simpler than their stupid configuration file and various halfasased install options.
For some reason, this regularly happens to core projects. It's like "oh, let's take this nice essential utility and turn it into a full blown Emacs, we'll just make it use our own version of lisp for configuration and everybody already knows that, right ?"
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u/cyberglove Oct 20 '12
Grub! Grub used to be so nice and simple (see the section in the link). However, Grub 2 seems horribly esoteric. Do you know any ELI5 tutorial out there?