I'm not really a fan of any bootloaders but grub2 has always worked which is more than i can say for other bootloaders.
-- Gravis On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-02-08 22:13 GMT+01:00 T.J. Duchene <t.j.duch...@gmail.com>: >> On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:00:01 PM dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: >>> From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegie...@gmail.com> >>> To: bill.m.m...@gmail.com >>> CC: Dng@lists.dyne.org >>> Date: Today 04:01:42 AM >>> >> >>> >>> "NOTE: I plan to finish development of LILO at 12/2015 because of some >>> limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop >>> this nice software further, please let me know ..." >>> >>> http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ >>> >>> Conclusions? If we want to use lilo, then, we need to add this >>> functionality. I like this idea, but this means a lot of work :/ >>> >>> Daniel >> With the greatest respect intended toward your situation, Daniel, LILO is >> something that should have been retired a long time ago. GRUB is by far the >> better maintained boot-loader. >> >> If you are still using LILO on old machines (pre-2008) or machines with >> questionable EFI compatibility, I'd recommend grub-legacy instead. Everyone >> else that actually has a decent UEFI firmware should be using GRUB2 by now. >> >> The newer versions of Windows will not dual boot into UEFI mode without UEFI >> support in the loader. Even if you hate Windows intensely, and never use it, >> you should be using GPT rather than MBR. GPT not only offers support for >> partitions/drives larger than 2 TB, it also has better redundancy than MBR. >> If the MBR area (first sectors) of a drive is physically unreadable, then the >> entire disk might (not always) be rendered unusable . GPT keeps a copy of >> the >> partition table at the beginning of the drive and a backup at the end of the >> disk, greatly increasing your chances of recovery should the first sectors of >> the drive fail. > > This is my posting: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/dng@lists.dyne.org/msg00480.html > > I use linux even without partition... with Grub 2 :) In this thread > you can note that the Grub 2 does not have too many fans. In my > opinion, the best choice is extlinux... but we discuss the same topic > in two threads. > > Daniel > > >> T.J. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
