On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 08:26 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > 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? It is easier to replace a kernel on a machine that will boot, than to replace a boot loader on a machine that won't.