Hi Thorsten! On 4/2/20 10:30 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > >> No idea what the stance on i386 is. But I think Thorsten is a LILO user. > > No, I haven’t been using LILO for a long time either.
Okay, bad memory on my side then :). > I _did_ use it about a decade ago, when I got back to Debian > after using only BSD for a while, but even before that, I > used loadlin more, and discovered grub during the BSD-only > time (considering it could do PXE). OK. > Why the removal? Does it not work any more for some reason? The LILO package itself isn't being removed. > Or is this just about the d-i integration? Yeah, it's just about removing src:lilo-installer. I assume everyone keen enough these days to use LILO can install it manually anyways. I have also enabled GRUB on ia64, powerpc, ppc64 and sparc64 as well, so we made good progress unifying bootloaders. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
