* Why in
System Administration is there is a
configuration option for LILO
but not for GRUB? Both should be supported.
...
I had a look here:
etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/40. I agree with
Darrell: "Both should be supported". <troll> In my
mind, Lilo is for
bootstrap loaders what Trinity is for Windows managers: the
latest versions
Grub2 and KDE4/gnome3 do not keep their promises. The
universal usability
targeted by Grub may be reached today, but 99.999% of the
standard PC +
Linux/Windows users dont care about that. I fill like having
paid something
for that, like lost of time with re-intallation, for
instance, especially
for problems of incompatibility between GRUB 1 and GRUB2.
These systems "of
the future" are finaly good but for TESTs purpose
only...</troll> So, I am
happy to see on
http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ that the
project restarted
in June 2010. I will use LILO if its support is available at
the moment I
will "definitively" install Trinity!
Check the etherpad for my comments. I don't want to see this option disappear but I
recognize that people using distros that do not use LILO do not want to be bothered with
the item. I recommended making this item a build option within the kcontrol cmake options.
Those who want to see this item in kcontrol set a build option and those who don't
tweak the opposite. Everybody wins.
I agree about GRUB. I still use 0.97 and have no desire to move to GRUB2 and the
convoluted mess that app has become. A challenge with adding a kpart to kcontrol for GRUB
is supporting both versions. Like LILO, GRUB 0.97 has not disappeared and is unlikely to
disappear soon. So for now the best approach is to create a build option for the LILO
option.
Darrell