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Softpedia News reports that version 2.02 of the GRUB boot loader has been released. Among the many new features are support for LZ4 compression on ZFS, 64-bit ext2, XFS v5, Morse code output and a modem-like output through the PC speaker, Xen paravirtualisation, TrueCrypt ISOs, Apple fat binaries on non-Apple hardware, and 16-bit mode on non-x86 hardware.
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Expect a letter from a friend who will ask a favor of you.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:03PM
Under Gentoo when I first I upgraded from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2, the fact that you were supposed to use a script to generate an overly complex configuration file turned me off to it immediately. I have no idea what they're up to or why and don't care.
Shortly after that I switched to syslinux [syslinux.org] and haven't looked back (extlinux in my case). Nice simply readable configuration files. It's like systemd (using openrc here) and everything else...it's been decided that simple=bad these day apparently. Everything has to be a black box like Windows I guess.