Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 18:18: > It's better than not having the option to have grub and lilo both > installed at the same time at all, IMHO. The fact that iff lilo.conf > is present lilo will be executed can be documented proberly with an > according warning in for example the long de

Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joachim Wiedorn [Mon Dec 13, 2010 at 05:53:48PM +0100]: > Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 16:36: > > update-grub just generates the grub.cfg, the lilo package doesn't > > execute lilo (and therefore doesn't touch MBR) as long as there's no > > /etc/lilo.conf. So both packages can and do co-

Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 16:36: > update-grub just generates the grub.cfg, the lilo package doesn't > execute lilo (and therefore doesn't touch MBR) as long as there's no > /etc/lilo.conf. So both packages can and do co-exist. Thank for more information - and also thanks to Colin. I o

Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joachim Wiedorn [Mon Dec 13, 2010 at 04:00:04PM +0100]: > Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 11:11: > > Now version 1:22.8-9 introduces: > > Conflicts: grub-legacy, grub-pc > > I don't see any reason why this should be enforced, actually this > > avoids deployments of systems where users c

Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:00:04PM +0100, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 11:11: > > Now version 1:22.8-9 introduces: > > > > Conflicts: grub-legacy, grub-pc > > > > I don't see any reason why this should be enforced, actually this > > avoids deployments of systems

Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]

2010-12-13 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-12-13 11:11: > Now version 1:22.8-9 introduces: > > Conflicts: grub-legacy, grub-pc > > I don't see any reason why this should be enforced, actually this > avoids deployments of systems where users can choose between lilo > and grub as bootloader as both can't be