On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:18:09 +0000 (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
> And it looks like the drain just got stopped up. > The goals of grub are laudable. But the boot process is a very > hardware specific thing, and trying to create a "one size fits all" > boot loader that works on all platforms is a daunting task. > Neither grub nor grub2 works on the s390 platform, for example. > It uses a program called zipl as its boot loader. > > If lilo works for you, and you're happy with it, > then stick with it. That's my advice, for what it's worth. Sounds good to me. I just thought that maybe lilo was no longer maintained or had some other bit-rot related affliction. But I installed it, and it works just fine. There is a little strangeness with the whole initramfs might be too big an image for your bios thing. But i went to the debian readme and did what it said. More importantly the messages present when I installed the package told me all of this so there were no surprises. The only strange thing it did was assigned a partition as the boot device as opposed to the boot device, i.e. /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda. minor change to /etc/lilo.conf and everything was a-ok. So lilo works for me, and I'm happy with it :-) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org