[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

Mike Bird mgb-fedora at yosemite.net
Wed Apr 20 05:25:56 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:03, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Of course, in all this, keep your mind open.  You might find that by
> pointing out a specific, definable short coming of grub the developers
> may choose to get grub up-to-snuff rather than include lilo.

Been there, done that.  As have many others on this list and elsewhere. 
Number one is lack of reliability, followed by lack of predictability
which is largely a consequence of lack of documentation.

Jeff thinks that Fedora is not supposed to be reliable, and posits
change for change's sake as Fedora's raison d'etre.  If Redhat would
confirm that we can all stop wasting our time.  Until then, we'll assume
that reliability is a Fedora/RHEL goal, whether stated or not.

Experienced programmers and sysadmins report that we need Lilo for
reliable systems.  We've advanced three valid reasons for keeping Lilo
for serious users.  The flame kids have countered with "Works for me",
"Redhat must have reasons that it's not telling us", and Godwins Law.

--Mike Bird





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