<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Frank Peters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.peters@...">frank.peters@...</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:04:50 +1100<br>
Lie Ryan <<a href="mailto:lie.1296@...">lie.1296@...</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What's the advantage of LILO nowadays? I used grub because of two<br>
> reasons: 1) I don't need to re-install the MBR when changing grub's<br>
> .conf file and 2) I can edit configuration at boot time, useful when<br>
> you messed up your grub.conf. Last time I checked (admittedly long<br>
> time ago) LILO cannot do both of these. Granted, I've never used LILO,<br>
> does it boot faster or runs on more platforms or is there any<br>
> particular reason why you used it?<br>
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</div>For one thing, it is completely independent of the kernel and some<br>
were expressing concerns about compatibility with 64-bit.<br>
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Lilo is also simpler, but it is not as versatile as grub.<br>
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My point is not that lilo is an advantage, but that it should not<br>
be overlooked by those who may not require a complex set-up.<br>
The trend seems to be to trash everything in favour of grub.<br>
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The legacy boot method is being slowly eliminated and will be<br>
replaced by EFI. For this there is elilo, which I hope to be<br>
using.<br>
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Frank Peters<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Yes, simplicity is why I have continued to stick with lilo (since 1995). It just always has worked. There's nothing more frustrating for me than trying to boot a machine and being presented with a<br>
<br>grub > <br><br>and having no clue what went wrong or where to go (although, yes, that's because of experience with lilo - and lack of it with grub). I did try to use grub for a time when it became popular, but after my first experience with it trying to recover from a failed boot I gave up.<br>
<br>The main advantage to me - why I started using it - was that it plays well with the Windows loader. I don't do those kind of dual-boot machines anymore, but it was very convenient being able to recover a Windows boot manager - or install a new one - and all I had to do to get back to my Linux boot was edit the BOOT.INI file.<br>
<br>... HH<br><br>
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