A rant regarding LILO and various other related issues

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> said:
> Broken in the sense that a non expert isn't likely to recover from
> common failure modes like installing or updating Windows and losing the
> MBR.  If you aren't doing RAID1 you have easy options, the best being to
> install Grub into the root partition instead of the MBR or at least
> being able to boot a rescue CD and just saying "grub-install /dev/hda". 

And how is that one bit different than if you use LILO?

> Yes Grub has a command line mode.  Big whoop,

Yes, big whoop.  Real servers are not always at hand and don't always
have a rescue disk available.  With LILO you are stuck if there is a
problem during boot, while with GRUB you have a command line that you
can try some things (and work around different types of issues).

> > Fedora is not a "perpetual beta release".
> 
> You must be using a different Fedora than I do. It ain't Rawhide or Sid,
> but it certainly isn't what I'd call a production OS.  It is exactly
> what it is advertised as, a testbed.

Which is quite different than a perpetual beta.  If it were going to
just be a perpetual beta, we'd just have rawhide, with no attempts to
freeze and test for releases.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.