lilo vs grub

[Robert L Cochran]

Paul has very positive comments here. Well said!

Bob



Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 12:55, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
>>>>grub needs to do the same w/o requiring manual intervention. Look in
>>>>bugzilla for long bugs with lots of people subscribed to them who've
>>>>found out the hard way that when you mirror on RH w/ grub and one
>>>>disk dies, you will not boot until you hunt up a rescue disk and
>>>>figure out how to reinstall grub.
>>>
>>>Seems like a trivial enough fix, one could almost script it to call grub 
>>>for mirror grub installs.  Has anybody RFE'd this to the upstream grub 
>>>maintainers?
>>
>>And I suspect my list of eyes-free features is also trivial to
>>implement--though I am not capable to do the coding.
>>
>>Point is that grub needs an expanded set of user requirements. Was there
>>evern such a process there? Or did some folks sit down to do what they
>>thought a boot loader should do?
> 
> 
> Open source works best when more people contribute to it. Certainly you
> should discuss ideas for improvement with the authors/maintainers. I'm
> not sure anyone brought up the fact that LILO has not (IIRC) been
> actively maintained for at least a couple years now. In fact, I remember
> the "lba32" directive that was so important several years ago was added
> by an interested third party who was unable to contact the original
> author/maintainer, and the results of his (the new guy's) work picked up
> by most distros because it was so necessary to LILO's continued use.
> 
> GRUB is actively maintained and I would be surprised if its team wasn't
> open to your suggestions and help. But to simply hope they're reading
> this list probably isn't as effective as talking to them directly. You
> might want to check out:
>   http://www.gnu.org/directory/grub.html
> 

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Bob Cochran
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