Thread: Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?
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2010-11-09 , 14:30
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#19
Originally Posted by Netweaver View Post
This is NOT easy, user friendly software as-is. This is the archetype of very flexible, multi-OS, multi-language, completely user un-friendly software that was soo common in the early Unix/Linux days.
It's a boot loader, not a twitter app. It's not aimed at end users in the first place. By definition it does some pretty low-level stuff (in some respects even lower than the kernel) and thus isn't meant to be friendly. People who are not intimately familiar with their device's boot process should stay away from the bootloader (any device, any bootloader).

No one's forcing people who find NOLO "friendlier" to switch either.

If only all people people involved in Maemo/Meego/NITdroid kernel building (think people like Matan, JoergRW, MohammadAG, Paul Fertser, Titan, stskeeps, e-yes, DJ-Steve, Nokia & Intel themselves and others) would work together on making everything u-boot compatible, to make it easy.
Everything is u-boot compatible, that's the whole point of having a "very flexible, multi-OS" as you put it solution.
 

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