Res said: [snip] >> You're missing a huge part of the picture. Having lilo the package >> (even >> though as you note, it's not really maintained) might not be much, but >> it requires a lot of complicated kludgy infrastructure in the installer, >> and in mkinitrd, etc., and makes kernel updates very fragile. > > what utter crap! we always build our own kernels using the std makefile > and the source from kernel.org, if you can compile a kernel then ur done > either way, nothing else to do So you always compile your own vanilla kernels instead of using the Core provided ones. Despite that, you somehow find installing a non-Core provided boot loader an huge burden? -- William Hooper