FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 21:33 -0400, Peter Jones 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) and that disk druid
> > be the partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use
> > than sfdisk! :) 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"?
> 
> lilo is listed as deprecated in the release notes for Fedora Core 1, on
> line 936 of the text version, released in November, 2003.
> 
> Here's a link to the html version of those release notes:
> 
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html
> 
> -- 
>         Peter
Yes and it was before that that people were having problems with 
GRUB but not LILO.

Those problems still exist, but LILO is no longer an option.