On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:46:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > 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.
Typos: I meant: For years now, I've heard that lilo's been orphaned recently. > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
