Matthew Burgess wrote:
Richard A Downing wrote:
Is LILO still maintained? Your comments here worry me a lot about
the competence of the team writing grub2.
Looks like it is - http://home.san.rr.com/johninsd/pub/linux/lilo.
The only advantage that I can see from Grub2 over Grub Legacy is it's
usable on PPC, x86-64, x86-32 (I think) which means that cross-lfs has
fewer bootloaders to worry about. I don't think LILO targets anything
other than x86-32, and I'm not sure of its current build requirements.
LILO needs only bin86 beyond what the book provides. And it works on
both x86 and x86_64.
Also there's a patch for LILO but not for the other bootloaders that
allows booting from devices managed by non-standard "partitioning"
schemes such as LVM2. Since my /dev/hda is managed by LVM2, I won't look
at anything except LILO.
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