Re: [jason@topic.com.au: Re: grub override disparity]
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:29:20AM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
> 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).
You can have the packages installed, yes. You can't actually use both
boot loaders at the same time though, really.
> > 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.
What our priority fields say is that by default, the boot loader is
lilo. You might use grub if you have specialised requirements which
are not met by lilo.
Be reasonable.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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