On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
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.
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.
LILO also works on x86_64-64 (bin86 needs a patch, but that should be
in the next bin86 release).
Ken
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