On 07/11/2012 12:38 AM, David Evans wrote: > For the record, I didn't say Red Hat shipped LILO. I said its > documentation still mentions it (though unsupported). > > There is no doubt that GRUB is the way commercial Linux does things. Debian is not usually classified as "commercial" but it does things the same way. GRUB is the way almost all distribution are doing things.
> However, LILO is not dead. I was only suggesting that entirely removing > it from LPIC 2 may be premature. (There's also elilo as mentioned > elsewhere on this list.) > There are lot of program that are "not dead" but still are history and almost if not completely unused. The fact that "a long time ago" they were relevant does not qualify them for still being an argument far a certification covering relevant knowledge for today sysadmin work. Otherwise why not putting back lpr-ng configuration (or BSD lpd), or kernel 2.4 and its modutils. In my experience they are far more used (in legacy machines) than LILO. > As for teaching it, goodness. Make a buried note in the course material: > LILO was here. Here's what a lilo.conf looked like. You have to run lilo > when you make a change. Install it on your lab machine as a bonus if you > like. Next bullet point. That covers 213.1. > The only reason I have to this is that LILO is mentioned as topic in 213.1. I cannot why I should waste time on teaching LILO that nobody is going to use now, when arguments far more relevant today as to be capable to setup a network booting ot understand SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX are still ignored by LPI. Simone BTW why LILO on a rsyslog reply ? -- Simone Piccardi Truelite Srl [email protected] (email/jabber) Via Monferrato, 6 Tel. +39-347-1032433 50142 Firenze http://www.truelite.it Tel. +39-055-7879597 Fax. +39-055-7333336 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
