On Monday 01 February 2010 16:24:58 Brian Denheyer wrote: > Imagine by surprise when I finished upgrading unstable and ended up > with a system that wouldn't boot. > > And I'm not the only one, judging from the bug list. > > So notice to those running unstable, DON'T UPGRADE GRUB ! > > So you're probably wondering what my question is :-) > > Is there any good reason for a system to use grub instead of lilo ? > > Grub appears to me to be a annoying, complicated, and hard to > understand, and those are it's good points :-( > > I never had a problem with LILO, but for some reason Deb decided to > make grub the default. > > > Brian > Not all GRUB functions are supported in LILO (I would mostly miss the the network boot).
Debian isn't linux only , kfreebsd and gnu-hurd don't work with LiLo (... and even some Linux ports would have problems with it as well). Debian needs a default and grub is more suitable in most cases. Nothing will stop you from using LiLo if that's what you prefer. Jens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org