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write your own bootloader

LILO or LOADLIN aren't good enough for you then?

LiLo

NetBSD's "boot" is basic and reliable.

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?installboot+8.i386+NetBSD-8.0

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?boot+8.i386+NetBSD-8.0

Can syslinux or lilo handle UUIDs?

>Apparently grub is pozzed

Proofs

systemd-boot

>>983157

Sorry, didn't meant UUID, but PARTUUID (obviously).

I really liked Grub 1. But even this one pissed me off. I think LILO was the best actually. But only when it actually worked. It was kind of a hit and miss. The new Grub is awful.

>>983175

Systemd boot, yeah, it's probably the only good thing about systemd. It's simple and works exactly like a bootloader should. You just write a config file and the damn thing will boot whatever it is. Like old Grub but more simplistic. The problem is - you only get it when you use systemd. And using systemd fucks up just too much just to use it to have a nice bootloader. I'd rather take the Grub2 clusterfuck. For those using arch though, yeah, use systemd boot so you'll actually have a little pay off in using systemd anyway

I honestly like grub2 especially being flashed on my mobo.

It's modular design might seem overkill, but for BIOS systems it supports every file system and partition scheme I might use.

I install Linux from the ISO in my home directory without having to use physical media.

OSX and another BSD have a pretty cool forth system, but when has anyone used it?

Lilo would take ages on my system to load the kernel.

>>983235

Gentoo has a systemd boot package which doesn't depend on systemd

Refind works out of the box and automatically find new partitions.

# efibootmgr -c -L "Gentoo Linux" -l "\gentoo.efi"

syslinux, use git version for latest features such as xfs support http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git