On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >> anything other than grub these days?) > > Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original > Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. > > Why? Because learning grub would take time. Maybe not very much time, > but it would take some. By contrast, although learning LILO took a very > great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got > back. Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot > loader now takes, at most, a few minutes. > > But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving > out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all. While I've still got a Debian > on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big > deal. In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn, > probably have been superseded by something else. :-) > >> Regards >> Dirk > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
I was just curious. I like having choices, so I wouldn't opt for leaving out LILO from gentoo. Regards Dirk
