[Fwd: [Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup]

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2005-20-04 at 09:55 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:02:12PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > Would you care to offer any reasons as to why Lilo should or should not
> > be available during Fedora and RHEL installations?
> 
> Its unmaintained
GRUB Legacy = ditto.
> Its obsolete
GRUB Legacy = ditto.
> Nobody in Red Hat tests/qa's it
>From what I can tell, it is the FC users who are supposed to 
QA GRUB Legacy patches, for RHEL.
> We can use the disk space for real packages
Like what, a single 640x480 wallpaper?
> Its more productive to fix grub than import prehistoric baggage like lilo
Ahh, so it is more productive to patch the heck out of a 
package that is not even maintained by the original 
developers.
> lilo doesn't understand file system layouts
> etc
Who cares, as long as it works.