GRUB 2.12 RC Delivers Two Years Worth Of Bootloader Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GRUB 2.12 RC Delivers Two Years Worth Of Bootloader Improvements

GRUB 2.12 had been talked about for a mid-2022 release while one year later we are finally greeted by the first release candidate for this next major open-source bootloader release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.12-RC1

[bob l'eponge]

And still no GUI or a way to skip that f*cking glitch of initializing a 80x25 text console from the 80's.

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Hope it gets released before it's replaced by systemd! :-P

[StarterX4]

And still no GUI [...]

Go ahead and develop one

[dragon321]

Go ahead and develop one

There is no point of improving bloated and outdated GRUB when there are already better alternatives like rEFInd.

[archkde]

Hope it gets released before it's replaced by systemd! :-P

Too late, and systemd-boot is much simpler anyway.

[skeevy420]

Hope it gets released before it's replaced by systemd! :-P

It has been on my system. I have a systemd-boot menu that offers a selection of UKIs to boot CachyOS on a ZFS root. Easy peasy setup.

[skeevy420]

I'm not trying to sound too negative about GRUB/GRUB2. It's basically all I ever needed to use for like two decades and it wasn't until recently that I ever felt that it was something that was getting in the way. A lot of other things advanced faster than it so I moved on.

I'm wondering if Bcachefs will be in a similar boat as OpenZFS in regards to how GRUB implements its own FS drivers or if being in-kernel/GPL will help any.

[avis]

No changelog, no nothing. What's there to discuss?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Grub always feels like an overly complicated magical black box that is the most fragile piece of my system.