On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, William Hooper wrote:
Res said:
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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
99/100 yep
provided ones. Despite that, you somehow find installing a non-Core
provided boot loader an huge burden?
its called choice
i choose to roll my own kernels
i choose to install lilo because grub cant handle some things and cant
handle others as well.
everytime we have had to do disaster recovery restorations from rsyncs
images grub refuses to play ball, with lilo its booted first time
everytime and the server is back
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Cheers
Res