On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 10:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/05/29 10:00 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed:
> Graphical bootloader is not my favorite idea.
Even though I strongly prefer seeing legible white on black framebuffer text
kernel and init messages throughout the boot process, Gfxboot has always been
one of my favorite SuSE things, with cmdline sitting right there ready to
edit on every boot. Did the Grub devs really do something to v2 to make GUI
boot a problem Fedora can't handle?
The fault here isn't really with the grub developers. The problem is
simply that hardware (and firmware) sucks. There are several ways you
can ask a system what graphical modes it supports. Whichever way you
pick, some hardware will give you the wrong answer.
I'm not terribly familiar with gfxboot, but its wiki page -
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Gfxboot - says "gfxboot relies on the VESA
Video BIOS for setting a video mode". This means it will inevitably fail
on some hardware, just as grub2 currently does, unless it grows some
clever heuristics / exceptions. Because some hardware just has crap in
the VBE BIOS. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/701111/comments/4
for a pertinent example.
It sounds like grub2 graphical is about as likely to succeed in any
given config as gfxboot.
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