FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Mike Bird]

I just checked the Redhat and Fedora distros which I still have around. 
Here are the Lilo versions:

  7.1  21.4.4-13
  7.2  21.4.4-14
  7.3  21.4.4-14
  8.0  21.4.4-20
  9    21.4.4-22
  FC1  21.4.4-24
  FC2  21.4.4-25
  FC3  21.4.4-26

Most of the version bumps were for new Redhat releases and involved no
source changes.  There was only one patch to Redhat's Lilo in the last
two years: a single #define.  Lilo version 21.4.4 actually dates back to
2000.

So we have a package that is essential in some circumstances, that costs
next to nothing to maintain, and that takes up <0.1% of a CD's space. 
The experience of many people in the real world is that even  a five
year old version of Lilo is more reliable than today's Grub.  Certainly
a five year old version of Lilo handles software RAID better than
today's Grub.

And so the cardinals of the Redhat vatican issue a bull banning Lilo.

FLOSS didn't used to be like this.  When did the world change?

--Mike Bird