[ale] Grub2 in May or June

[Wolf Halton]

LILO was an option on RedHat 9 - 10 years ago.  Is that ancient?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 01:55 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Slack still uses it I think.  I did a slack install a year ago or so,
> and it was lilo.
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf
>>     Of mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>
>>     Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 1:07 PM
>>     To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>>     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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