lilo vs grub

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:47, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> I'm not sure anyone brought up the fact that LILO has not (IIRC) been
> actively maintained for at least a couple years now. 
...
> GRUB is actively maintained and I would be surprised if its team wasn't
> open to your suggestions and help. 

I find these remarks quite extraordinary.
I see new versions of LILO advertised almost weekly.
I don't remember seeing a new version of grub for ages.
I've seen many requests for grub to add the LILO feature
allowing a one-time boot into a non-default kernel,
but nothing has been done.
I've seen many comments about grub documentation
but nothing has been done.

Personally I use grub all the time
because I don't like writing to the MBR more than necessary,
and it does everything I want to do.
But I don't see why people should not use LILO if they prefer it.

It reminds me a bit of the dreadful Disk Druid
that RedHat seemed to be forcing one to use,
despite the fact that fdisk appeared to me to work much better.


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