FC4t2 no good without LILO

Res res at ausics.net
Wed Apr 13 08:20:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
>> So we have a package that is essential in some circumstances, that costs
>> next to nothing to maintain, and that takes up <0.1% of a CD's space.
>
> You're missing a huge part of the picture. Having lilo the package (even
> though as you note, it's not really maintained) might not be much, but it
> requires a lot of complicated kludgy infrastructure in the installer, and in
> mkinitrd, etc., and makes kernel updates very fragile.

what utter crap!
we always build our own kernels using the std makefile and the source 
from kernel.org, if you can compile a kernel then ur done either way, 
nothing else to do


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Cheers
Res




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