On 10/09/2012 6:57 AM, Kyle wrote:
According to Thomas Bächler:
Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might
disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install
GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux.
Actually, at least from where I'm sitting, this "personal opinion" has
a good bit of technical merrit. I can confirm that my life with boot
loaders has become much easier since switching to syslinux, and you
are the second regular contributor who has stated this. I was forced
to chainload Windows XP after resizing a partition on this old machine
I am still using, hopefully until the end of the day. This was already
configured into syslinux by default, and worked flawlessly without
modification. Additionally, the Arch defaults were sane enough to be
able to run with very little modification, only needing the label for
my root partition in the append line for the kernel. A big +1 from me
for syslinux.
~Kyle
Also prefer syslinux. In my opinion when the news post came up that
said grub was deprecated it should have mentioned syslinux, since it's
much closer to grub-legacy than grub2 is, and trivial to install.
