On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Patrick Erdmann wrote: > On 29.05.2016 22:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:37:08PM +0100, dev1fanboy wrote: > >> > >> Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer > >> as of recently. > > > > I'm happily using lilo to boot my server. > > > > From a floppy, yet. > > And then you realized its 2016!
Yes. And it still works. -- hendrik > > > > > The nice thing about a floppy disk drive is that it has as many boot > > records as you have floppy disks. > > > > If the boot record is damaged, you > > just pull one of your five backups off the shelf and use *that* to boot. > > > > And if you have more than one OS (I do -- different versions of Linux > > -- if the lilo stuff on disk gets damaged, I boot the other os (which > > has its own lilo stuff) using *its* ilo floppy. > > > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
