On 01/06/2010 10:32, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The reason grub2 is being forced upon us all is the need of the "desktop" > users who want a 20MB kitchen sink kernel and initrd that will support any > piece of hardware on any machine they throw at it. Many sysadmins don't want > or need that, and we're being forced to change our bootloader due to the > perceived needs of others. > > LILO isn't broken and it works well enough for may folks such as myself. We > should have the option of keeping it, as an installable package, until _we_ > feel we need to change to something else. It's as much a philosophical issue > as it is a practical one. There is no legitimate reason LILO can't be left in > the distro as an optional package, just as it is now with Lenny. > A perfectly legitimate reason is that there is one willing to maintain it. Lots of hot air on -user, but nobody prepared to do the work. IMHO the kernel size issue is just the straw that broke the camel's back.
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