On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 10/07/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> >>> Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? It's got a single configuration >>> file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. My >>> lilo.conf has 50 non-comment/space lines, and that includes 8 kernel >>> versions. >>> >> Why don't I avoid $difficult_thing by doing >> $equally_difficult_other_thing? =) >> >> If I thought lilo was going to be around longer than grub2, it might >> make sense. I'm gambling on that one. >> >> > > Not to mention you have to run lilo when you update kernels and other things > too. I used lilo when I first started using Linux. I can't imagine me ever > going back to that thing.
Back in the mid 90's I used to use a boot floppy to dual-boot, I think it was LILO... Floppy in, it booted Debian, floppy out, it booted OS/2. One day, someone took the floppy and reformatted it to copy some files onto it; that seriously hindered my ability to boot Linux at that time. :)
