FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

Mike,
They don't care.
The lists have been flooded with issues, bugzilla reports have 
been submitted at their request.
They just don't care.

I tried to help, but after being pushed around by their arrogance 
for too long, I have given up trying.

If you want to maintain your sanity, use a simple PATA drive to 
boot from, and use the RAID for your /usr, /var and other directories.

On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > Which of the 82 Grub bugs prevents it from being used for serious work?
> 
> 1) That basic Bugzilla queries yield 82 Grub bugs versus 15 Lilo bugs is
> illustrative of their relative levels of reliability.
> 
> 2) The general flakiness of Grub makes it unusable for serious work. 
> One simply cannot afford plane tickets (or even trouble tickets) every
> time Grub fails.  Lilo is much more reliable than Grub.  Grub may be
> appropriate for a newbie on a home PC, but Grub does not replace Lilo.
> 
> 3) One of the most serious ongoing problems with Grub has been the
> flakiness of the software RAID support.  This was first added in 0.90
> (July 2001) but has ever since been a constant source of Bugzilla
> reports - reports which are not included in the list of 82 because they
> were closed when the March 16th patch was written.  Now maybe that patch
> will solve all known problems, but I'm certainly not going to bet the
> farm on it without months of testing.  Why is Fedora betting its farm? 
> Lilo's RPM takes only 547k on the CD.
> 
> 4) And this brings us again to the incredible lack of judgment
> manifested by the Fedora Core team.  First do no harm - if you don't
> understand the issues relating to Lilo and Grub don't mess with them.
> 
> --Mike Bird