Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

[Bruce Sass <bsass@edmc.net>]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available.  Both
> lilo-installer and grub-installer are available.  One of them need to
> be the default choice.  The default choice will probably be used by
> most first time installers, and will also work as a recommondation
> from the Debian installation team to our users.
>
> The previous versions of Debian used lilo, bug I am not sure why.  At
> this time, grub is working quite well, and it includes a few features
> making it my boot loader of choice.  But grub will fail with some
> BIOSes and disk controllers.  I guess lilo will fail with others.
>
> Which boot loader should we make the default for i386?  I suggest
> making grub the default.  The lilo boot loader should be included as
> an option, until grub work on all the machines where lilo will work.

I read the above and conclude lilo should be the default boot loader,
"until grub work on all the machines where lilo will work".

I have not heard of machines that lilo does not work on,
are you guessing wrong or have I just not heard about them.


- Bruce