On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:40 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:26 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> Frans Pop wrote: > >>> On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > >>>> Quoting William Pitcock (neno...@dereferenced.org): > >>>>> lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and > >>>>> the widespread availability of alternatives. > >>> I think that last part is debatable. > >>> > >>>>> I do not have time to manage the removal at this point, but it will > >>>>> be gone by June. > >>> Has the package already been offered for adoption? Preferably with an > >>> overview of its current (upstream) status and main issues. I'd say that > >>> if there's anybody willing to (actively) maintain it, it should not be > >>> removed. > >>> > >>>> This is a heads up mail for the D-I team. > >>> I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be > >>> discussed on d-devel, especially since it impacts more than just D-I. I > >>> suspect there are quite a few packages that make some sort of provisions > >>> for lilo. > >>> There are also significant numbers of people still using lilo for, at > >>> least for them, very good reasons. > >> I totally agree. > >> But I think that lilo package description must be changed, warning new > >> users that lilo have several limits (thus not all kernel within debian > >> are bootable with lilo). > >> > >> Maybe we could also require grub{,2} when installing lilo (chained > >> as other in lilo, for emergency, new debian kernel policies, etc), > >> but I don't know if it is feasible (e.g. when lilo is not in MBR). > > > > chainloader will work with lilo, but lilo is only kept around for the > > people who are crazy and booting off LVMs as it is. > > Yes, but it works if you have an additional partition (for boot > record). I don't know if they could live in the same partition > (with some magic). > > But IIRC lilo fails also in other cases: some xen immages, on very big > images (which can be reached in some initram). > > > Booting off LVMs is supported directly by grub2 and ext2linux could > > probably be modified to support it in a much better way than lilo does > > it, so this is not really a compelling argument for keeping it. > > What is ext2linux? packages.d.o and google doesn't give me relevant > informations.
Oops. It is extlinux. It's syslinux except it boots off a hard-disk instead of a floppy or CD. Quite similar to lilo in featureset. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org