[Fwd: [Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup]

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:39 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Despite numerous complaints about the inadequacy of Grub, Redhat closed
> this tracking item - falsely claiming that nothing can be done.
> 
> It would be trivial to restore Lilo to FC4.  The only thing standing in
> the way is Redhat's arrogance.
> 
> --Mike Bird

Hi Mike,

This thread has been going on for a while! It is really distracting a
lot of people from helping Fedora make progress.

You haven't given any specific, actionable examples of your claims of
grub unreliability or unpredictability.

>From what I gather, your judgement of lilo vs grub is a high-level
assessment based mainly on your perception of the overall reliability
and maturity of those two programs. No one is faulting you for liking
lilo more than grub, and one of the things Fedora Extras is meant to
facilitate is the choice of packages such as lilo. Your judgement seems
wrong to many of us, but you're still very much entitled to it as far as
your computer systems go.

The people who had to make the decision for Fedora Core (including
myself) realize that this is a judgement call that we may be wrong on in
the long run. However, based on the current information we have
available, we are comfortable with the current decision and its
implications. In short, LILO is not coming back into Fedora Core.

The tactics you are using to try to get your way are not going to work.
Please stop posting to this thread.

It'd be great if you would focus on cooperating with the others in the
Fedora community. If there is anything I can do to help you get involved
and contributing, please let me know.

<list-master hat>
Otherwise, I deem the LILO vs. GRUB thread _DEAD_. Everyone, STOP
posting to it
</list-master hat>
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