Re: grub2 upgrade fail (was Boycott Systemd)

Expanding on this:
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] grub2 upgrade fail (was Boycott Systemd)
> From: Barry Schwartz <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:44 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> 
> Antoine Martin <[email protected]> skribis:
> > "Simple" and the large collection of scripts that is grub2 is not
> > something I often hear in the same sentence ;)
> 
> I don’t use any of the scripts, and just have a very simple, hand
> edited grub config file. Lilo, however, has the huge advantage that it
> tries to verify the config before it does anything hazardous.
> 
> Grub 2 seems to me better than Grub 1 (though still not very good) if
> you find yourself editing things at the Grub command line. However, if
> it does not work on a given computer then this is what I call ‘a fact
> of life’. :)

See http://exherbo.org/docs/install-guide.html for how simple it can
be to use GRUB 2, if you just ignore the hoopla. My own config is
kmore complicated; it installs some fonts and has entries for memtest;
but these are minor niceties.

(Completely avoiding initrd by simply putting / and /usr on one
filesystem is another of those measures you wouldn’t think existed if
your experience were entirely Ubuntu, etc.)