[BozemanLUG] Time to get rid of grub?

[david]

We knew this day would come.  Then next step is to eliminate that pesky 
kernel between the systemd-boot and the rest of systemd.  It's just a 
bunch of extra features that nobody uses that have accumulated into a 
bloated mess over the last 20+ years.  We can make things much better by 
getting rid of all that extra kernel cruft.

Looks fine.  They arch people have had this as an option for a while.  
It can even boot the memtest so we won't need a rescue dvd for that.  It 
may crash and burn with the Fedora people as they don't like the nvidia 
drivers.  Currently rpmfusion updates grub2 and the initrd image.  Going 
to something that makes all of the decisions for you may make things 
difficult here.  We'll have to wait and see.

David.

On 2017-02-21 5:39 pm, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> You know it had to happen?  Good idea?  Bad idea?
> 
> https://npmccallum.gitlab.io/post/our-bootloader-problem/
> 
> Executive summary: systemd-boot
> 
> At the very least, hopefully it would make boot loaders the same (or
> pretty darn close even with different systemd versions) across Linux
> distros.  If you have ever tried to customize grub2 on different
> distros, you'll know it can be quite a bit different.  And of course,
> there are the actually problems solved mentioned in the fine blog
> post.
> 
> I haven't used systemd-boot so I don't currently have an opinion.  I'm
> mostly scared of UEFI boot as I haven't really used it much at all.
> 
> TYL,