Re: Considerations for lilo removal
"s. keeling" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.curiosa |
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Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 06:42:25PM +0100, Martin B?hr wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:53:14PM +0000, Florian Rehnisch wrote: > > > BTW: recently converted a lilo box into a grub one. > > > > the obligatory question i have to ask every time someone wants to replace > > lilo with grub: > > > > can grub do animation yet? > > like this: > > http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/ > > Oh lovely. So they waste time on useless crap like that, but still > can't read an arbitrary kernel from a filesystem yet. > > No wonder grub is replacing it. BS. Both of them have their place and their uses. Slackware distros don't need grub. I've seen many a distro's grub installer clobber the existing grub without asking. And running a four letter command after changing lilo's config is not a lot to have to deal with to keep it working. Yeah, grub's great and works. So's lilo, and sometimes it's the better choice under those circumstances. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me.