[ale] Grub2 in May or June

[Lightner, Jeff]

They say it isn't funny if you have to explain it.   I had just hoped that despite my decrepitude I hadn't yet gotten old enough to be making "ancient" Linux references.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael Trausch
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 1:56 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Grub2 in May or June


Ah!

No, I just wasn't sure what you'd meant. Could be because it has been ages since I used LILO. The very mention of it recalls memories of my first Slackware installs.

I adopted GRUB a long time ago because I used to be a chronic recompiler of the kernel, and since LILO used block lists to load the kernel and initrd (and once every so often I invariably forgot to update said block lists) it was very inconvenient.

The last time something told me it had to use LILO for my setup, I went behind its back and installed GRUB2.  :)
On Mar 19, 2012 1:35 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com<mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
Not sure if you're being pedantic or serious.

As a hint:  lilo





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Subject: Re: [ale] Grub2 in May or June

On 03/19/2012 09:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I notice you don't hear much about the pre-GRUB boot loader any more.
> Do you suppose it has decided to lie low?

To what, exactly, are you referring?  At least on all my systems, BIOS
starts GRUB, so the only thing that is pre-GRUB is the system firmware
itself.

       --- Mike

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