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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Okay, but just out of curiosity - did you try and figure out what was going
wrong with lilo before throwing in that grub disk?  lilo may be a little
tricky on *some* systems, but it's *supposed* to work on everything.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33:09 -0600
Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu> wrote:

> Adam Clark wrote:
> > Nope, and I'm not sure why this keeps coming up - probably ignorance on
> > my part, but here's what I've seen on this discussion in the past:
> > 
> > lilo handles pretty much every i386ish system
> 
> It didn't handle mine, the only reason I was able to boot my system was 
> because I had a grub boot disk lying around.
> 
> > grub has problems with some systems
> 
> I've seen lilo have more problems personally and I have had far fewer 
> problems with grub.  Also with each release of grub there are fewer and 
> fewer problems with it.
> > 
> > So, if this is the case and grub is just a 'preference' thing, what's to
> > stop one from replacing lilo with grub after the install?
> 
> Not being able to boot the system because lilo doesn't work?
> 
> > 
> > If the above is not true, then we should figure out some option to
> > supply both on the ISO.
> 
> I really think we should provide both, and give them the option up 
> front.  Why force the install of one, when people want to remove it and 
> install the other later.  Give people the ability to do it once and do 
> it the way they want.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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