Re: Can LILO do this too?

2012-05-19, Dan Espen wrote:
SM <kasmra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

2012-05-19, Dan Espen wrote:
no.top.post@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Which leaves one wondering why LILO in this day and age.

Because it Just Works™.

Obviously for a seriously limited range of values for "works".

Yes. For more general cases, it works.

Besides you just cut out my point about active development.

The point was noted. I'm not sure if LILO is actively developed or not.
In any case I haven't heard any news that suggested so. In my personal
experience LILO has always worked where GRUB has failed. But then again,
my use cases have not been this advanced.

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