Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
Stephen Powell put forth on 5/31/2010 8:57 PM:
> On Sun, 30 May 2010 03:48:50 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sat,29.May.10, 22:35:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>>
>>> My gut instinct is that due to the above reasons and possibly others, the next
>>> dist upgrade is going to hose all my production servers whilst trying to
>>> forcibly convert them to Grub2. Is my instinct correct?
>>
>> Worst case you'll have to pin lilo at 1001 and grub-pc at -1 before the
>> upgrade ;)
>
> Does anybody know what happened to John Coffman (the last known upstream
> maintainer for lilo)? Did he get bored with maintaining lilo? He was
> doing a great job. I think he's the one that added lba32 support.
> He seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Did he die or what?
That's a good question. I was just digging around (not very thoroughly) a few
minutes ago and I can't find any recent posts from him via Google.
--
Stan
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