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Why use Lilo [Was: Debian Rescue Floppy]



On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:24, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Not to trigger a flamefest or anything, but why on earth are people
> still using LILO?  This is not the dark ages anymore.  GRUB is much
> easier to use, and if you set it up to use symlinks (similar to LILO)
> you never have to reinstall it to the MBR when you change kernels
> (since it can just read for filesystem to get the new kernel).

My personal opinion here, but I use LILO still because I know it, it
works for me and it makes sense. I haven't had the time, nor the desire,
to learn grub as I don't see the advantages to it. Of course I'm using
the if it isn't broken don't fix it philosophy, plus I'm lazy.

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