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[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 20:51, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:39 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yet another reason to stay with LILO.  It just works.  I may be the
>> only person on the planet (apart from the developer) to use it, but
>> it's never failed me.  Can't say the same for that POS GRUB.
>>
>
> Does that mean that LILO will boot from an ext4 partition?

LILO doesn't care about formats.  The reason you have to run 'lilo'
after every new kernel install is because LILO is low-level.  It
points to the disk sector containing the kernel boot loader code.
That's why you can boot anything, even Windoze, with it.  I'd be
willing to bet you could boot a kernel from a raw partition using
LILO.  The biggest objection I've heard about LILO is "I can't
maintain it because it's written in machine code" -- wimps.

GRUB2 has become a monstrous mess.  It's huge because it has to
understand any filesystem it has to boot from (and the number ain't
going down).  This was a terrible design decision -- reminds me of M$'
design decisions.  But it's "GNU", so must be the first choice.
(Napolean stood a better chance at Waterloo than GRUB stands in the
battle of the filesystems.)

>
> BTW, you and Doug and Patrick Volkerding are on the same wavelength.
>

Sounds like pretty good company to me (thanx for having me, guys).
Heck, if I joined the GRUB group, I'd raise the IQ/reputation of both
groups. ;-)

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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