lilo vs grub

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 19:24:36 UTC 2003


On Oct 21, 2003, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:54, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Dude!  How could you forget the alternative of shipping with a BSD
>> kernel as an option?!? :-)

> Although I'm a grub user, I find the arguments put forward here
> for grub exclusivity very odd.

I have no idea of why you chose to reply to my message to put in your
argument, but I was certainly not arguing against lilo.  I was just
adding to the joke started by Jef.  I don't use lilo myself, but it
served me well for quite a while.  I wouldn't mind at all having it as
part of the distro, but I don't get the maintain the lilo package, nor
the installer bits that would offer it as an option and set it up, nor
would I test them myself, so I have absolutely no say on it.  Frankly,
I don't care.  Give me a boot loader that works, and I'll be a happy
camper.  If the default boot loader fails, I'll probably try to help
making it work for me during test cycles such that in final releases
it works out of the box.

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