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Re: GRUB vs. LILO



Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:

> What's the status of making GRUB an optionon installation? The
> rationale is that I'm still getting complaints on the
> ridiculous 1024 cylinders limitation and LILO won't support
> LBA. In my humble opinion we should scrap LILO, but we already
> had this discussion in this list last month and decided it
> isn't a good idea yet (IIRC), so perhaps we could at least give
> it as an option? LILO sucks, we have to admit it.

If anyone wants to work out a way to optionally grub on the current
boot-floppies CVS area (I don't think it would really need a fork), I
think that would be the first step.  I'd love to test it.

If it works, I'd love to go with it...

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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