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Brian T. Brunner wrote:
The question remains unanswered: WHY was LILO removed?
You seem to have missed the post where I highlighted the fact that it has not been removed.
***Yes, the "removed" was only virtual (making it invisible unless you have ***knowledge from elsewhere) not surgical.
The question was "Hey, REDHAT, *WHY*?"
you also seem to have the wrong forum for that question, please contact redhat at one of the following
***Anybody here know of a reason?
Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838
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Brian T. Brunner wrote:
The question remains unanswered: WHY was LILO removed?
You seem to have missed the post where I highlighted the fact that it has not been removed.
***Yes, the "removed" was only virtual (making it invisible unless you have ***knowledge from elsewhere) not surgical.
The question was "Hey, REDHAT, *WHY*?"
you also seem to have the wrong forum for that question, please contact redhat at one of the following
***Anybody here know of a reason?
Lack of arch support is often cited as a reason, although most other boot loaders one comes across ( yaboot on ppc, silo on sparc, aboot on alpha, elilo on ia64 etc ) seem to have roots in lilo. One of Grub's intentions is to have a single cross platform /multi platform boot loader ( so far it does only i386 and x86_64, which is one more than lilo )
If you are interested in the low down details, http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ might be a place to start looking. The merits and demerits of a boot loader are, I feel, beyond the scope of this mailing list.
So, on i386 grub and lilo are both avilable, other arch's have their own bootloader process / app's.
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