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  • #31
    I would like GRUB to display a warning if UEFI Secure Boot is not enabled.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by caligula View Post

      The modular design even supports boot time audio. What's the problem?
      Takes 5 years for a stable release?...

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      • #33
        REFIND + Clover + a million other. easier, more advanced, more eye pleasing.


        Owned.

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        • #34
          Clover + Refind a million times better then grub....

          Google and try it out yourself, they are also super easy to use.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by nomadewolf View Post

            Takes 5 years for a stable release?...
            there's only so many developers doing Grub2, but even systemd has a Boot manager which may eventually superseede grub2 in Fedora . ( that im unsure of )

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            • #36
              Originally posted by suberimakuri View Post
              I do like rEFInd.
              I actually use it to manage a multi-drive multi OS box.
              As I understand it though rEFInd can't do mdadm raid yet so I actually have rEFInd calling grub installed into a MBR.
              This is a bit of a pain for various reasons but until I move the root filesystem to a regular ext4 partition on an SSD, I don't have much choice I think. Even then, I still like to mdadm raid root.
              rEFInd can boot a grub-efi too, and if you have a RAID1 made with --metadata=0.90 it will also see the kernels in the drives normally (that setting limits the max size of the array to 2 TB but in most cases that's enough for the /root filesystem) as any other non-RAID-aware boot loader.

              It can also read btrfs RAID1 (which is what I use).

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              • #37
                Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View Post
                By the way, I would be happy to do so, but there seems like no automation around this booting concept - last time I checked there was no packages that automate kernel registration in firmware loaders list and update initrd/vmlinuz files on EFI partition after kernel upgrade. This is sad, because for ARM such package is exist: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flash-kernel
                also cj.wijtmans wanted that.

                Again I don't see why you couldn't just make a script that does this, flash-kernel is just a script that automates flashing of kernel/initramfs/uimage in a flash partition.

                You can recycle the efibootmanager manipulation parts from rEFInd's installer script, for example https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/cod...refind-install
                or just write your own by looking at efibootmanager docs/tutorials.

                Then, for bonus points, you only need to find a good way to trigger this after a new kernel has been installed/removed so it runs automatically.
                Last edited by starshipeleven; 26 April 2017, 06:05 AM.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                  That it supports morse code beeps and not a proper GUI with icons.

                  That it needs to be manually updated for each distro change, it does not automatically scan for stuff.
                  edit: good to know that there is refind, did not know about it.
                  Last edited by tomtomme; 26 April 2017, 06:31 AM.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by gotwig View Post
                    One of the worst boot managers I know.
                    I kinda like it. It has a steep learning curve, but it is very modular and represents about a right combo of utility, robustness and power.
                    It has access to graphics and most facilities one expects to be available in kernel etc.

                    WRT to initrd update support etc, i feel this might be too much to expect from a bootloader. But it has a good infrastructure that one can use to implement wanted extra bells and whistles. Heck, AFAIK it can even boot frm RAID etc.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Anvil View Post

                      there's only so many developers doing Grub2, but even systemd has a Boot manager which may eventually superseede grub2 in Fedora . ( that im unsure of )
                      Sure that's always a factor.
                      But is a boot loader that big of an undertaking? I thought it was one of the smallest pieces of software in Linux...

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