Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Roger Leigh put forth on 5/28/2010 11:39 AM:
>> For the most part, grub is a vast
>> improvement over LILO, and except for the odd corner cases which
>> grub doesn't cover,
>
> In what way is it a vast improvement over LILO? I've never had a problem with
> LILO. It's always "just worked", which is what a bootloader should do. So
> how exactly would grub be a better choice for me?
The reverse argument can be made too. Both grub1 and grub2 just work.
Unless you are continually installing dual- and triple-boot this or
that, you are not going to be changing you config continually no
matter what bootloader you use and you will therefore not be
interacting with it that much. So, except for Stephen P's case, what's
the big deal?
>> grub is a much better choice if you have the
>> choice.
>
> What choice? Apparently the Debian team have decided there will be no
> bootloader choice when Squeeze becomes Stable. Supposedly at that point it's
> Grub2 or your system no longer boots. That's not much of a choice is it?
The lilo upstream devs have given up on lilo so blaming Debian is
unfair and irrational. If no DD wants to maintain lilo upstream
(whether because of increasing kernel size or lack of sexiness of
bootloader coding or whatever...), you can only hope that another
distribution's developer decides to do so.
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