On 20-11-2010 15:15, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:38:33 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
I don't think it's a good idea to maintain that many bootloaders in core. grub-legacy is unmaintained, lilo has a very old-school design and major disadvantages. We could keep grub2, but it seems it isn't really stable yet.
That's what I mean. There's unfortunately not an allrounder, yet. One old and unmaintained, one still older bootloader, one newer and maintained but still unstable and one newer and maintained with not so many supported filesystems.
It just needs to know how to read well from /boot which can be quite small (100~200MB) and be whatever filesystem will be supported for years to come, even if the supported filesystems change it's not much of a trouble copying stuff somewhere else, formatting and copying back. Sometimes more is not better if support is flaky. -- Mauro Santos