On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:04:17AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > In recent years, as I got progressively more irritated with byzantinely > overengineered distro-packaged software barging onto my Linux systems, I > actually checked to see about just, y'know, switching back to lilo. Two > problems: > > 1. lilo's been orphaned for about half a year (since Dec. 2015).
As far as I can remember, iko's been orphaned at least half a year. But it just keeps on booting. > 2. lilo can't support EFI/GPT, only old-school IBM/Microsoft disk > formatting with an MBR as opposed to GPT, etc. I use lilo to boot from a floppy. My system (includding /boot) is on a software RAID within partitions on two EFI disk. It works. I guess the floppy manages to get around the EFI restrictions? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
