[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

Mike Bird mgb-fedora at yosemite.net
Wed Apr 20 06:15:13 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:40, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> until you can give the developers something concrete with which to
> work all the other comments about this aren't going to amount to squat.

Rodd,

Grub's DEVELOPERS have already abandoned Grub.  Grub is legacy,
obsolete, bereft of life, resting in peace.  Grub is only here because
some MAINTAINER at Redhat nailed Grub to the perch.

What is wrong with Grub is that Grub is not as reliable as Lilo.  That
is why Lilo is needed for serious work.  Software developers understand
that reliability is important.  System administrators understand that
reliability is important.  Users understand that reliability is
important.  Business managers may not know how to change their
screensavers but even they understand that reliability is important.

Simple test cases are great but not always possible.  Repeatable failure
modes are not the only kind of bugs and recoding is not the only kind of
solution.

The solution here is easy, and doesn't require any coding.  Redhat needs
to put Lilo back in Fedora Core is all.

--Mike Bird




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