lilo vs grub

[jdow]

From: "Paul W. Frields" <paul at frields.com>
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 12:55, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > grub needs to do the same w/o requiring manual intervention. Look in
> > > > bugzilla for long bugs with lots of people subscribed to them who've
> > > > found out the hard way that when you mirror on RH w/ grub and one
> > > > disk dies, you will not boot until you hunt up a rescue disk and
> > > > figure out how to reinstall grub.
> > >
> > > Seems like a trivial enough fix, one could almost script it to call
grub
> > > for mirror grub installs.  Has anybody RFE'd this to the upstream grub
> > > maintainers?
> > And I suspect my list of eyes-free features is also trivial to
> > implement--though I am not capable to do the coding.
> >
> > Point is that grub needs an expanded set of user requirements. Was there
> > evern such a process there? Or did some folks sit down to do what they
> > thought a boot loader should do?
>
> Open source works best when more people contribute to it. Certainly you
> should discuss ideas for improvement with the authors/maintainers. I'm
> not sure anyone brought up the fact that LILO has not (IIRC) been
> actively maintained for at least a couple years now. In fact, I remember
> the "lba32" directive that was so important several years ago was added
> by an interested third party who was unable to contact the original
> author/maintainer, and the results of his (the new guy's) work picked up
> by most distros because it was so necessary to LILO's continued use.
>
> GRUB is actively maintained and I would be surprised if its team wasn't
> open to your suggestions and help. But to simply hope they're reading
> this list probably isn't as effective as talking to them directly. You
> might want to check out:
>   http://www.gnu.org/directory/grub.html

So let me get this straight, Paul. Are you saying that "Maintained but
does not work" is better than "unmaintained but works?" That's a strange
sort of attitude.

{O.O}