GRUB's failed potential [LWN.net]

GRUB's failed potential

Posted Jan 23, 2008 16:21 UTC (Wed) by mheily (subscriber, #27123)
In reply to: GRUB's failed potential by Junior_Samples
Parent article: LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet)

Multiboot is a GNU invention, not a standard, so one can hardly consider the BSD's to be
"defective" in this case. Is the Linux kernel "defective" because it doesn't implement
kqueue(4) from FreeBSD, or support ZFS from Sun?

Using the 'chainloader' function of GRUB to invoke a BSD bootloader works fine for the vast
majority of people. I use this setup on my desktop machine, in fact. It seems to me that
Multiboot is a solution in search of a problem.

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