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For me it's lilo, still. Not only because it's the default for Slack, but
also because I'm madly in love with the one-off shot for booting a specific
kernel (lilo -R test). If the new kernel fails I press reset and get
straight back into the working (current) default.
I reckon you can count the Slackware users here. 1 vote for Lilo = 1 Slackware user.
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Eventually, old GRUB (0.x) will not support all new hardware anymore... (don't expect new features for it).
I'm not so sure. In principle, "legacy" (hate that word!) Grub doesn't boot ext4 or btrfs. Yet the Fedora and Ubuntu and Debian versions do so on my box.
Lilo is 1990s technology IMHO. And Grub2 is a practical and philosophical aberration.
Just your average, totally unbiased, objective opinion.
I reckon you can count the Slackware users here. 1 vote for Lilo = 1 Slackware user.
Basically . GRUB is usually heavily modified by distros and Slackware = vanilla so LILO is pretty vanilla as Slackware users basically only use it. I like it's simplicity.
I like GRuB because its easy to locate and edit. I've had at least one oopsie (bad experience) trying to dual boot a slackware distro and put LILO in the wrong place. Just caused a hassle for a bit.
I reckon you can count the Slackware users here. 1 vote for Lilo = 1 Slackware user.
Ironically, it's mostly a debian project
LILO 23.x was built from from almost abandonned code + many debian patches.
Joachim Wiedorn (debian) is the new upstream maintainer as well. http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
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Originally Posted by impert
I'm not so sure. In principle, "legacy" (hate that word!) Grub doesn't boot ext4 or btrfs. Yet the Fedora and Ubuntu and Debian versions do so on my box.
Lilo is 1990s technology IMHO. And Grub2 is a practical and philosophical aberration.
Just your average, totally unbiased, objective opinion.
Indeed.
The last upstream code for grub 0.x needs to be patched to be more functional.
Most people who complain are using that unpatched beta code.
I don't really tend to get up in arms over my bootloader, but I've always preferred LILO simply because it's faster on my pathetic old machine and /etc/lilo.conf is really easy to edit.
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. GRUB is usually heavily modified by distros and Slackware = vanilla so LILO is pretty vanilla as Slackware users basically only use it. I like it's simplicity.
