Please drop LILO from all levels. It's really hard to teach LILO nowadays, you can only do it by showing old config files or running old VMs.
As everyone else is agreeing, nobody will mind about it. Cheers! A 2015-09-01 16:33, Bryan J Smith escrigué: > Anselm Lingnau wrote: >> Bryan J Smith wrote: >>> So it _can_ boot just about any Linux file system. ;) >>> But yes, it's far more difficult to manage the "target" with >>> LILO/ELILO. >> > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >> LILO is on the exam not because we think it is such a great piece of >> software >> but because of inertia. It had its day. > > I think we can all agree inertia is the case. > > I was just trying to "be complete" in pointing out that LILO/ELILO > still "work" with any root file system format, but are not very easily > managed when it comes to setting up their target(s). > > There are a few cases where LILO solves a very niche detail ... > something I never see today. I just wanted to be technical accurate. > >> If we satisfy ourselves that nobody important is still running very >> old versions >> of RHEL and SLES that use LILO we can remove it from the exam and >> chances >> are nobody will even notice. > > RHEL4 was dropped a couple years back. Unless you have an ELS > entitlement, it's not supported. And RHEL4 Phase I (hardware support) > ended over 5 years ago. I think that was the last version to ship > LILO at all, although it could have been RHEL3. > > Other than for IA-64 (Itanium, not IA-32e aka x86_64), I'm fairly > certain RHEL5 didn't ship shipped LILO. Although I think an early EFI > code backport to GRUB was included for IA-64 in RHEL5. I need to > check. > >> Note that LILO is gone from LPIC-1 already (and good riddance). IIRC >> we >> decided to keep it in LPIC-2 for another iteration or so and then get >> rid of >> it there, too (in LPIC-2 4.5). We'll be unlikely to get a lot of >> complaints. > > Understood. As I mentioned, we should cover U-Boot before revisiting > LILO/ELILO. > > But most things have gone GRUB2-EFI, at least in the Enterprise > aarch64 space. Ironically it's AMD pushing it for ARM, as Intel > dropped all ARM developments a full decade ago (all sold to Marvell). > > But U-Boot will still be around. But I don't know if that's pertinent > for LPI. > > -- bjs _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
