Please pardon me for saying this - but I must confess that I find GRUB almost as tiresome as LILO used to be. BURG is a little better...but still, today's quest was to see what may be available for a different boot loader. Wow. Hardly anything exists, it seems There is one called Gujin that has some of the scariest and longest docs I've ever seen; Another option is to use the boot manager that comes with Haiku OS, and...and...and... That seems to be about it for direct replacements. Does anyone know of any that I have not found ?? Thanks.
Yes, that does make it a bit more palatable - but still: I would prefer just to fuggedaboudit !! PS: Antilope - your sig is wonderful !!
Unfortunately, linux, even though open-source, has a limited array of software. In some cases, very limited. Boot loaders are one example. lm-sensors is another.
For what it's worth, I use rEFInd to multiboot my laptop: it allows me to bypass the dodgy Toshiba/Microsoft EFI shenanigans whilst still being able to use Secure Boot.
Take a look at syslinux, one of the oldest out there. Has some unusual features (can run from NTFS, can unlock OPAL encrypted drivers), while being still simple and easy to configure. Despite the name, it can boot pretty much anything.
If you're dual booting with windows, just install the linux bootloader on it's boot partition, not the mbr. Then just use easybcd to linux to the linux bootloader. Simpler, safer and surviving to windows reinstalls
