On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
The central problem is that the distros are on a continuum among
ambivalence, incompetence, and malicious when it comes to multiboot
cooperation. And GRUB upstream has done a lot of Rube Goldberg
innovation to try to solve this problem but then ultimately it all
breaks.
For multiboot, GRUB has failed the distros, the distros have failed
GRUB by effectively forking it, and each other. And even though
proposals have been made to fix this problem, the bottom line is, the
distros could not possibly care less than they do now, or it'd get
fixed.
If only installers would use the same ESP and
elilo/grub/gummiboot/syslinux/systemd-boot would pick up
root/kernel/cmdline/initrd options from "/boot/loader/entries/" or
"/boot/efi/loader/entries/" or "/boot/efi/EFI/loader/entries/"...