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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:20:03
Message-Id: 4E8F1859.60709@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement by Michael Orlitzky
1 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 10/07/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
3 >> Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? It's got a single configuration
4 >> file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. My
5 >> lilo.conf has 50 non-comment/space lines, and that includes 8 kernel
6 >> versions.
7 >>
8 > Why don't I avoid $difficult_thing by doing
9 > $equally_difficult_other_thing? =)
10 >
11 > If I thought lilo was going to be around longer than grub2, it might
12 > make sense. I'm gambling on that one.
13 >
14 >
15
16 Not to mention you have to run lilo when you update kernels and other
17 things too. I used lilo when I first started using Linux. I can't
18 imagine me ever going back to that thing.
19
20 Dale
21
22 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>