<p>Ah!</p>
<p>No, I just wasn't sure what you'd meant. Could be because it has been ages since I used LILO. The very mention of it recalls memories of my first Slackware installs.</p>
<p>I adopted GRUB a long time ago because I used to be a chronic recompiler of the kernel, and since LILO used block lists to load the kernel and initrd (and once every so often I invariably forgot to update said block lists) it was very inconvenient.</p>
<p>The last time something told me it had to use LILO for my setup, I went behind its back and installed GRUB2. :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 19, 2012 1:35 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Not sure if you're being pedantic or serious.<br>
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As a hint: lilo<br>
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On 03/19/2012 09:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> I notice you don't hear much about the pre-GRUB boot loader any more.<br>
> Do you suppose it has decided to lie low?<br>
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To what, exactly, are you referring? At least on all my systems, BIOS<br>
starts GRUB, so the only thing that is pre-GRUB is the system firmware<br>
itself.<br>
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