lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?
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.
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