Boot Loader Proposal

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Thu Oct 23 11:16:50 UTC 2003


Jesse Keating wrote:
> ...
> Grub and Syslinux remain in Core.  They will cover the mass majority of 
> the userbase, with minimal duplication.  Lilo shall be relegated to 
> Alternatives or Extras.  Lilo seems to have a smaller need base, but 
> still needs to be available.  This should satisfy the majority of the 
> people on this list right?

Here is a bug which has one very good reason why lilo should continue to
be included:
	http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55484

LILO supports RAID 1 boot disks, GRUB doesn't, except in the install
process, which doesn't help you after you install another OS and it
trashes your boot loader.
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my email reply *below* the quoted text?
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