Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

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Subject: Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?
From: Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:57 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1219846049.6853.1223.camel@petrie.sacredspiral.co.uk> (William Pitcock's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:07:29 -0500")
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William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> wrote:

Hi,

> If you have both GRUB and LILO installed, there will be problems. That
> is infact, a bug. They should Conflict with each other to ensure that
> only one can be installed at a time, but it is a minor bug at best, as

There's no reason why the LILO and GRUB packages should conflict. I
want to use LILO on my machine because GRUB fails miserably, yet I
need GRUB to generate a GRUB boot-floppy.

JB.

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- Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?
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