On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
The central problem is that the distros are on a continuum among ambivalence, incompetence, and malicious when it comes to multiboot cooperation. And GRUB upstream has done a lot of Rube Goldberg innovation to try to solve this problem but then ultimately it all breaks.
For multiboot, GRUB has failed the distros, the distros have failed GRUB by effectively forking it, and each other. And even though proposals have been made to fix this problem, the bottom line is, the distros could not possibly care less than they do now, or it'd get fixed.
If only installers would use the same ESP and elilo/grub/gummiboot/syslinux/systemd-boot would pick up root/kernel/cmdline/initrd options from "/boot/loader/entries/" or "/boot/efi/loader/entries/" or "/boot/efi/EFI/loader/entries/"...