FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 16:37 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:03 -0700, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> > if redhat (this is a core issue, they control core) is desiring that
> > lilo be phased out (not a bad idea in itself) 
> 
> Has been for a while.
> 
> > and that disk druid
> > be the partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use
> > than sfdisk! :)
> 
> Disk Druid is a front end part of anaconda.  A long time ago (RHL 7.2?)
> it used fdisk in the backend to do the partition work.  Since 7.3 or
> even earlier, disk druid has used parted to do all the partitioning
> work.  This hasn't changed for many releases.
> 
> >  and that other tools that used to work but suck
> > in comparison to modern tools be eliminated, then can we at least
> > make a "deprecated" list and say "these tools will be eliminated from
> > the final distribution [once the test releases are done] so if you
> > need them can you let us know so we can work out the bugs in the tools
> > we want to use instead"?
> > 
> 
> As I said, Lilo has been deprecated since RHL8 or even earlier.
But optional until FC2.