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I'm extremely glad that more and more distributions ship alternative bootloaders as first-class alternatives, the excessive complexity of grub2 has always added far too many failure points and required far too much active maintenance.

integrated with all update hooks automatically, vs "I guess we have a package with just the binary somewhere, go figure out the rest on your own"

It doesn't help that GRUB (whether 1 or 2) didn't support IBM PC compatibility unless you handled it manually yourself (something Linux installers also are guilty of).

This happened to mostly work units you dual booted into something that ran another program that ignored the no-man's land of cylinder 0, or had done something with CHS that grub didn't expect.

Grub2 was always too complex and breakable. To the day on x86 machines I install grub1

Grub is very reliable complex as it may be. Its lifespan in the system is only a second I’m fine with that.

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GRUB2 Modules (2010)