/tech/ - Technology★

>>951300

Is it necessary? No. Should I be able to do it? Yes. I theme my window manager and gtk widgets and icons. I theme my login manager and my boot splash. Why not the bootloader as well? Why not have a consistent look from top to bottom instead of ugly garbage?

>>951301

>boot splash

I was fine with your existence until you said that

>>951411

Boot logo. Boot screen. Splash screen. What else?

grub2 was a fucking disaster. I use syslinux instead on devices and VMs. I can install the MBR with good old cat instead of 20 megabees of garbage, it doesn't throw a fit when the drive name I'm installing it on will differ from the drive name at boot, and I can hardcode the boot drive in the MBR.

>>951458

Bullshit. You and people like you are the reason why things are ugly and don't fucking work. In China they have the "chabuduo" or "good enough" culture. And guess what? 95% of Chinese goods and services are bottom of the barrel flimsy horse shit as a result. GRUB is not "good enough". It's ducktape and strings holding up the house and it's wholly unacceptable.

>>951460

I mean syslinux is alright for what it is, but I'm not talking about a Linux-only solution. More of a BIOS replacement that can also be a bootloader for all Unix-like systems, ranging from Linux/BSD to even things like Open Indiana or MINIX. At the same time it should also be able to boot the Windows loader off the MBR or even boot GRUB if that's what the user really wants. It's all about choice, and not the false halfassed meaning of it that things like Libreboot and systemd have redefined to mean "a do it all our way or fuck off" kind of choice, hence my push for themes and a standard Unixy systemless shell to boot operating systems or other loader programs.

Why can't we have both the low level hardware init stuff and the bootloader inside the BIOS ROM? And no, before anyone points it out, UEFI is not the solution.

>>951299 (OP)

Read this post in its entirety if you're too smart and just need to shave off a few IQ points.

>>951299 (OP)

Build petitboot and add it as main payload faggot, what are you, a kike ? Jesus.

>>951500

Confirmed kike. Rot in hell tranny

>>951487

if you have EFI you should throw your computer in the trash. there are plenty of non EFI computers available. EFI is just the last symptom of an architecture that has terminal cancer and is about to die

>>951569

this. and there are just too many defective UEFI implementations that don't follow the spec.

>>951299 (OP)

grub's shell might be shit, but in it's defence it has modules for almost any imaginable system configuration and can even edit NVRAM contents when used as a playload directly. Most importantly it can unlock encrypted drives and preform signature checks without depending on EFI or a TPM. So far this is the only way i've found to have a 100% encrypted drive (including mbr...or would include MBR if the drive had one, or a partition table for that matter). It is pretty annoying how large the payload gets when you give it enough moduels to be useful though.

>>951455

>Microsoft acquires GitHub

Well, fuck....

Didn't know.

>>951299 (OP)

You can make boot it itself:

https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads#Linux-Kernel

Also can use graphical loader, if you want:

http://gag.sourceforge.net/pics.html

Or use Tianocore with http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

>>951505

So you are a tranny?

>>951630

>he doesn't just keep an encrypted home partition, preferably on another disk

You're doing it wrong.

>>951788

I don't want Linux as a payload, nor do I want an EFI.

>>951789

Stop projecting your sick fetishes onto me and leave my thread.

>>951794

>leaving your kernel images and root file system unencrypted

>booting from an unverified MBR/EFI

>no signature verification

It's like you want an evil maid attack.

>>951807

*puts transmitter in your keyboard on your stupid machine with the latest hardware based security attestation bullshit*

>>951299 (OP)

BLOAT