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On 17/03/15 19:00, William Unruh wrote:

> Yes, grub is a change from lilo, and grub2 is at least a big a change
> from grub as grub was from lilo. grub2 seems to be a full operating
> system all on its own whose purpose is to load the operating system! :-)

Lob it together with an EFI BIOS and it gets really insane**

** I actually have a system that did not want to boot in non EFI mode - 
first ever. Had to reinstall allowing for an EFI partition.

Still not sure if the extra complexity has actually solved any problems!!!