Re: Q: Will the new Lilo be included into potato?
> Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
> > The new LILO *must* be included in potato; Linux is unusable on
> > about 25% of the systems I've tried without it. (You have to use a
> > boot floppy or put your kernel under 1024 sectors, which is
> > unacceptable for dual-boot systems).
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:46:26PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> So you find all of the following solutions unacceptable?
>
> * using a boot floppy
> * having a small /boot partition before any non-Linux stuff
> * using a loader different from Lilo
yes. yes. and yes.
LILO, while the best-doccumented program ever[tm], has always been
broken, wrt disk size. LILO is what our installer uses, and it must be
able to LO LI. Sure, all of Robert's suggestions are possible, but all
are insufficient for many/most(?) not-as-clueful-as-Robert users.
If the installer mandated #2, or #1, or made possible #3, then this
could wait. I hate to advocate it, but this warrants breaking the freeze
for a moment.
- chad
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