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Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?



On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:46:32PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2016, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > I finally switched to Jessie (but still using SysV Init) a few months
> > ago. This box and its predecessors have uses lilo (and SysV Init)
> > since Bo was a pup. I have yet to see any real reason to switch from
> > lilo to grub. I have never had a problem with lilo and I like having a
> > config that I can directly control and understand.
> 
> Grub's configuration is pretty simple; /etc/default/grub is pretty
> straight forward, and the resultant configuration is also pretty easy to
> understand as well.

YMMV, I find it impenetrable.

> There's a reason why no one is interested in maintaining lilo anymore.

And another why some look for alternatives to Grub :)

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