[CentOS] why was LILO removed from centOS 4.2?
Bryan J. Smith
thebs413 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 1 07:08:25 UTC 2005
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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