Re: liloconfig replacment (was Re: GRUB)

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:09:54PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I'm quite sure we're not going to go with grub in potato.
> 
> No prob, but, why not? As a teacher I surely know that the 
> 1024cyl problem is going to become a show-stopper very soon.

The only reason why not is that (a) it's not all that well testing,
(b) some of it's configuration stuff is at this point even more
obscure than lilo, (c) it doesn't yet have some of lilo's features
IIRC, and most importantly, (d) we are supposed to *freeze* in 4
weeks!

> > Can someone look at Slackware and/or RedHat lilo configuration systems
> > with an eye to integrating them with the boot floppies?
> 
> Will do. The one in RH has that ugly UI like Xconfigurator, but 
> does the job very nicely.

Thanks a lot.  Let us know what you find!

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