vote for Lilo

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 18:50:30 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:25, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Jack Bowling wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:04:25PM -0200, gsc wrote:
> > 
> >>I don't know who is the responsible, but maybe a election to keep LILO 
> >>can change the "things". :-)
> > 
> > 
> > If Fecora eventually works as planned, I imagine it could always appear
> > as a contrib package.
> 
> Which is useless if you cannot boot with grub. The installer needs to 
> install grub or you'll never beable to install contrib packages.
> 
> FWIW, I have such a system.

The reasonable thing to do here is to fix Grub. If we just include Lilo
support, how would we present it to the user?

 [x] GRUB works on my system

This is not a sensible choice to present to the user.

Regards,
						Owen






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