On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 21:33 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:03 -0700, Dana Lacoste wrote: > > > 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"? > > lilo is listed as deprecated in the release notes for Fedora Core 1, on > line 936 of the text version, released in November, 2003. > > Here's a link to the html version of those release notes: > > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html > > -- > Peter Yes and it was before that that people were having problems with GRUB but not LILO. Those problems still exist, but LILO is no longer an option.