Re: LILO

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>]

Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> One can only wonder why BSD and Linux don't support the multiboot standard.

Easy one: the current system works reasonably well and noone bothered
to implement multiboot since it doesn't give i386 that many benefits.

> GRUB development had stalled for a couple of years, but is now active for
> over a year again, and it has catched up on all lines.  There really is no
> reason to not use GRUB.

I still run into a system every so often that grub won't install on
actually.

> Even better, there are some new commands which make using GRUB so simple.
> You just do "setup (hd0)". 

Simple commands are no replacement for documentation though. Whatever
you can say about lilo, it does have a pretty extensive manual.

Wichert.

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