Re: Debian Project News - May 31st, 2010

[Wolfgang Gruhn <w-gruhn@eilpetitionen.de>]

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl schrieb:

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> The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
> Debian Project News                    debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
> May 31st, 2010                   http://debian.org/News/project/2010/04/
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> [...]
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> LILO about to be removed in Debian 6.0 "Squeeze"
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> William Pitcock explained [17] that due to some limitations (for example
> in the size of supported kernels) the boot loader LILO [18] is about to
> be removed from the upcoming release of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze". He
> therefore asked users to test the replacement boot loader GRUB 2 [19].
>
>    17 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00769.html
>    18 : http://packages.debian.org/lilo
>    19 : http://packages.debian.org/grub-pc

Hello,

GRUB version 2 cannot be accepted (because of security reasons) as long
as the PASSWORD command is ignored. Please inform the developers to use
GRUB version 1 instead, thanks!

Wolfgang Gruhn