FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 19:46 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:28 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > Can we please get it back?
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Can we please keep it?
> 
> No, of course not. 
> 
> If something is wrong with app X the solution is to fix app X, not ship
> an alternative to app X just because some users thinks it work better
> for them. As a comparison, it's not like we ship the FreeBSD kernel just
> because some users think that it has features that the Linux 2.6 kernel
> doesn't.
Then get the problems fixed... DUH!!!

The problems is the developers keep blaming the problems 
on misconfiguration, when the thing should work.

Although I have read the documentation for GRUB, I still have 
no idea why it wouldn't work no matter what files I modified 
and updated grub. Only fresh installs after replacing or 
changing a drive would work. The error number would indicate 
that a file could not be found, but the errors do not mention 
which file could not be found or on which device it was looking 
for the file. I would boot the Rescue CD and enter the grub 
console and could verify all the drives were matched in the 
map and could find the files that the docs said needed to be 
found and was able to verify that every thing in the 
configuration file matched.

Read the archives, many people have been having exactly the 
same problems, and were having those problems well before 
LILO was completely removed. I had tried GRUB many times 
from when it became the default, until FC1 but it always 
ended up causing me grief, and I posted notes and checked 
Bugzilla. There have always been close to identical 
problems listed in Bugzilla, so I probably did not create 
any duplicate reports. Since nobody could help fix the 
problem I would just switch to LILO and cary on using the 
systems. On the next upgrade or re-installation I would 
try GRUB again, and so on and so on. The problems have 
never been resolved, yet someone still decided that it 
was to be the sole package supported for a boot loader.