Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?
On Monday 01 February 2010 16:24:58 Brian Denheyer wrote:
> Imagine by surprise when I finished upgrading unstable and ended up
> with a system that wouldn't boot.
>
> And I'm not the only one, judging from the bug list.
>
> So notice to those running unstable, DON'T UPGRADE GRUB !
>
> So you're probably wondering what my question is :-)
>
> Is there any good reason for a system to use grub instead of lilo ?
>
> Grub appears to me to be a annoying, complicated, and hard to
> understand, and those are it's good points :-(
>
> I never had a problem with LILO, but for some reason Deb decided to
> make grub the default.
>
>
> Brian
>
I am using sid too, but I installed apt-listbugs, which told me not to upgrade
grub-pc. So I was saved from it. Generaly I think it is a good idea to have
apt-listbugs.
Thierry
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