Fwd: Re: Why use Lilo [Was: Debian Rescue Floppy]
--- "J. Hannemann" <freebsdiva@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 06:37:13 -0800 (PST)
> From: "J. Hannemann" <freebsdiva@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Why use Lilo [Was: Debian Rescue
> Floppy]
> To: Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann
> <monkey@monkeynet.ca>
>
>
> --- "Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann"
> <monkey@monkeynet.ca> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > o) Derek Wueppelmann (o
> > (D . monkey@monkeynet.ca D).
> > ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca/ ( ) `
> >
>
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> I'm with Derek here. I use LILO because I know how
> to
> configure it from top to bottom, it serves me well
> for
> booting from multiple partitions, and it just works.
>
> Maybe it's not fancy, but it's an old workhorse.
>
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