[CentOS] why was LILO removed from centOS 4.2?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote:
> Nothing more and nothing less.  Most users will never use
> any of grub features other than selecting which image to
boot
> (same as in lilo).

Umm, GRUB does _dynamic_ boot resolution.  LILO does _not_,
it says "blindly boot this sector offset."  That's why you
have to re-install LILO everytime you change something.

That's the _key_ difference between the two.

Hence why GRUB is highly recommended over LILO, because you
can resolve issues at boot-time -- including helping users
over the phone without their having to have a rescue disk. 
GRUB is adding more and more disk label and filesystem
support all-the-time.

Now if they'd only get LDM (Dynamic Disk) support, we'd be
set!

-- Bryan

P.S.  You _can_ give LILO a "pretty GUI" just like GRUB.


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