Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
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?
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