Re: Fedora 34 Change: Unify the GRUB configuration files location across all supported architectures (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:35 AM Guido Aulisi <guido.aulisi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IMHO boot loaders should not write to filesystems, if this is needed to
> hide the GRUB menu when boot is successful, then let's display it
> always as it was one time. I don't think it we should follow Windows or
> MacOS style here, the boot menu is useful.

It's an old design predicated on FAT and ext2. That design is
outgrown. That's all.

> Yet another partition needed to boot the OS. What when there are no
> available paritions in BIOS mode, because other OSes used all the
> available 4 partitions?

GRUB can read EBRs.

For bootloaders that don't understand EBR, they'll need to stick to
the simple ways they're doing things already.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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