Le 09/07/2016 à 22:00, Brian a écrit :
All well and good but the installer inexplicably offers a choice between GRUB and LILO. The installer manual is unhelpful on which to choose. A newcomer wouldn't have a clue. We do them no service with this retrograde offering. Get rid of it. What is the point of a choice?
Maybe the choice is because GRUB won't install on some very specific setups while LILO will.
A boot loader is not just like any other program that you can install at anytime. It must be present for the whole system to start. So it makes sense to include it (and choice for it) in the installation sequence.