[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:28:50AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I do this sort of support for a living; I'm the one who has to tear my
> > hair out when I have to recover from people having made design and
> > implementation choices which I will be polite enough, here, not to  
> > call "stupid".  :-)
> 
> Given all the trouble I've had with GRUB lately, I'm starting to  
> think it's a bad implementation decision in general.  Why is it Linux  
> still doesn't have a boot loader as reliable and simple to configure  
> as the one FreeBSD has had for years?

Well, obviously, because then you couldn't 145-ple boot:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959

Cheers,
-- jra
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