On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both > lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to > be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by > most first time installers, and will also work as a recommondation > from the Debian installation team to our users. > > The previous versions of Debian used lilo, bug I am not sure why. At > this time, grub is working quite well, and it includes a few features > making it my boot loader of choice. But grub will fail with some > BIOSes and disk controllers. I guess lilo will fail with others. > > Which boot loader should we make the default for i386? I suggest > making grub the default. The lilo boot loader should be included as > an option, until grub work on all the machines where lilo will work.
I read the above and conclude lilo should be the default boot loader, "until grub work on all the machines where lilo will work". I have not heard of machines that lilo does not work on, are you guessing wrong or have I just not heard about them. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
