A rant regarding LILO and various other related issues

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 22:49 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> said:
> > Broken in the sense that a non expert isn't likely to recover from
> > common failure modes like installing or updating Windows and losing the
> > MBR.  If you aren't doing RAID1 you have easy options, the best being to
> > install Grub into the root partition instead of the MBR or at least
> > being able to boot a rescue CD and just saying "grub-install /dev/hda". 
> 
> And how is that one bit different than if you use LILO?

Err

> 
> > Yes Grub has a command line mode.  Big whoop,
> 
> Yes, big whoop.  Real servers are not always at hand and don't always
> have a rescue disk available.  With LILO you are stuck if there is a
> problem during boot, while with GRUB you have a command line that you
> can try some things (and work around different types of issues).

FUD

> 
> > > Fedora is not a "perpetual beta release".
> > 
> > You must be using a different Fedora than I do. It ain't Rawhide or Sid,
> > but it certainly isn't what I'd call a production OS.  It is exactly
> > what it is advertised as, a testbed.
> 
> Which is quite different than a perpetual beta.  If it were going to
> just be a perpetual beta, we'd just have rawhide, with no attempts to
> freeze and test for releases.

You want to change the image, support software options that 
work, along with software options you need to have tested.

> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.