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Re: [jason@topic.com.au: Re: grub override disparity]



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> It might not actually conflict in terms of dpkg dependencies, but
> in reality you can only use one boot loader.

But you can have more than one installed at a time without causing problems
(which I presume is the reason they don't declare Conflicts: against each
other).

> lilo is in section 'base' and is priority 'standard', so grub must
> go in extra, because users of it have specialised requirements.

What, you mean booting Linux? Then users of lilo have specialised
requirements as well.
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