On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:58 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It can't be used if /boot is on XFS or LVM or md RAID, all of
which lack boot loader padding areas, so fewer configurations are supported.
>
Okay. I don't want to put separate /boot partitions on XFS, LVM or RAID.
Certainly not with a multi-boot desktop system (which uses LVM, though).
If you use grub2 correctly, all of these use cases are easily supported. If you go off the
rails, then your layouts are necessarily limited.
In any case, installing a bootloader to a partition not how UEFI works. So I don't see
the point in defending methods that aren't best practices, and instead cling to legacy
notions that either aren't recommended or simply don't work, just because the
firmware is BIOS. We'd be much better off with a cooperative approach with BIOS
multibooting rather than the messy, overly complicated state that presently exists.
> You're better off using extlinux if you want something that
supports
> installation to a partition.
It's good to have a fallback, at least. Grubby includes support for extlinux,
too.
Right well grubby is another crusty bit of legacy I'd like to see us drop that has
various other problems with at least one modern file system.
Chris Murphy