What are your thoughts on the GRUB bootloader?
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What are your thoughts on the GRUB bootloader?
free as in freedom
It never just seems to work out of the box on all the shitty laptops my classmates seem to buy. Never had an issue myself, just werks.
it might be my dying HDD bit I still feel like grub is shit. Never had boot issues with Windows
its not rEFInd, so it a shit
Mine likes to add two new entries every single time the kernel updates. So that's fun.
>>54560337
this
refind is top notch
>>54560343
run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate a new config file.
>>54560337
Does it support a salted/hashed password or encrypted boot?
>>54560243
It works. No reason to change it to something else.
>>54560243
Why not LILO?
>>54560406
Lilo and elilo are no longer being maintained according to the devs.
>>54560382
Not sure but, why do you want your bootloader to be encrypted? It looks for efi entries and boots them, encryption on the tail end of that is the problem of what ever the efi entry represents
>>54560432
I want my kernel and the boot partition to be encrypted. I can do that with grub.
>>54560457
As far as kernel encryption, i cant see why the bootloader would even be a dependency, not something im aware of, id assume the kernel handles that itself.
I cant see what the benefit of encrypting your boot partition would be, but its a pretty seasoned bootloader, so im going to assume it would support that since full disk encryption is pretty common, but i cant be bothered googling that for you
>>54560243
It doesn't jive well with NVMe drives.
>>54560337
Came here to post this.
>>54560343
Your distribution does that, not Grub itself.
>>54560382
Yes and yes
GRUB works well imo. and if something happens wiht windows. you can always fix with a live linux boot
>>54560337
>Not booting your kernels directly from uEFI
Its almost like you hate booting fast!
