Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016, at 20:53, Felix Miata wrote:
> Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-07 20:30 (UTC-0400):
>
> > If your system has a BIOS and a traditional DOS-style partition table,
> > there's no reason not to use LILO, unless you just don't want to.
>
> Or, if you like to be able to boot without hunting down rescue media even
> though you forgot to "rerun" some configuration utility after a kernel
> upgrade. Once you understand how Grub's shell works, which includes command
> history and tab completion much the same as *ash, it is simple (maybe not so
> much in Grub2, which I don't use, as in Grub, which accounts for about 97% of
> my bootloader installations). Grub's shell has built-in help. With Grub,
> there's no reason to be scared when an expected boot menu doesn't show up.
> ...
I've been using LILO for about 16 years, and I've never had to use rescue
media because I forgot to run lilo. Modern Debian systems make sure that
lilo gets run when it needs to be run. As for features, LILO has all the
features that I need. Chiefly, it has the feature of being able to load the
Linux kernel into storage (and it's initial RAM file system image) and transfer
control to it. It does one thing, and it does that one thing very well: it
loads the Linux kernel. I believe in the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple,
Stupid). If you're happy with grub-legacy, great. I'm happy for you.
Keep using it. I'm happy with LILO, and I intend to keep using it. And
apparently, the OP is happy with LILO too; and there's no reason, at least
at this point, why *he* shouldn't keep using it.
Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out -- Hoare's
law of large programs.
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