On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:18:02AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:48:37PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Perhaps detailed instructions for doing this should be in the > > documentation for devuan -- somewhere where the home user is likely to > > see it. > > > > IMHO, a home user does not necessarily need to know how to rescue from > a malfunctioning LILO conf, since he should not be able to stop LILO > from working by installing and upgrading packages (which are the > normal things a "home user" wpuld do). To be honest, a home user > wouldn't usually bother at all about which boot loader is used.
Really easy to end up without LILO working. If you boot from a floppy, LILO will try to write the boot informatino on the floppy. Just forget to diable write-protect on the floppy before an upgrade. You'll get a few messages, but may not see them. Or an inept backup and restore that replaces the kernel with itself. > [...] > I believe that the way forward is simple: let's give standard, > rock-solid working environments to "home users", as that provided so > far by Debian & relatives, but leave the freedom to mess things up to > the people that know how to do that (or would like to learn it...). Rock solid is good, yes. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
