On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 16:03 -0700, Dana Lacoste wrote: > ...and grub allows for a more of a sparc or bsd-style boot loader, > where you can specify the kernel you want to boot without needing > to reload lilo and it's more modern and looks better and..... > > the arguments for grub vs. lilo aren't that lilo is better, it's > that lilo is working for someone where grub specifically doesn't. > > in my previously mentioned problem, disk druid trashed my > partition table but all the other tools didn't. > > so I'll ask this question then : > > if redhat (this is a core issue, they control core) is desiring that > lilo be phased out (not a bad idea in itself) and that disk druid > be the partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use > than sfdisk! :) and that other tools that used to work but suck > in comparison to modern tools be eliminated, then can we at least > make a "deprecated" list and say "these tools will be eliminated from > the final distribution [once the test releases are done] so if you > need them can you let us know so we can work out the bugs in the tools > we want to use instead"? > > Dana Lacoste Better yet, since seeing all the problems with GRUB, they should put LILO back until the bugs are resolved. I keep hearing there are more bugs about GRUB because thats what more people are using. That is nonsense I never had a problem that required a bug report with LILO and each bug I found with GRUB already had at least on bug that was already listed for the same problem I saw, and none had solutions that fixed the problem, hence I am pretty sure I didn't post a bug report.