Re: [CentOS] why was LILO removed from centOS 4.2?

Les Mikesell wrote:

With lilo you had to repeat the install at every change to the config, kernel or initrd.

This is a weak point. With either grub or lilo, you have to edit configuration file. After editing, you run /sbin/lilo, and lilo does the right thing. This is completely automated from kernel postinstall script and requires no user intervention. For the vast majority of users, the only differences between grub and lilo they will ever encounter/notice are:

- grub has "fancier" boot-time interface - grub doesn't work out-of-the-box on RAID1 configuration

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).