[ale] Grub2 in May or June

[Lightner, Jeff]

Compared to what?

To me Linux is a young whipper-snapper compared to UNIX.  Heck even DOS came after UNIX.

Anyway some things still use LILO so far as I know - thankfully I don't work on anything that uses it by default.

RH 9 (and even 7.3) was still here when I started 7 years ago and I don't think I was able to retire the last of those until 2-3 years ago.   It amazes me that even to this day I'll see people asking questions on other forums about RH 9.   I do typically categorize RHEL3 and before as "ancient" in responses to posters asking about them.  They still had the 2.4 kernel.  Even RHEL4 went EOL at the end of February this year and RHEL6 has been out for more than a year.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Wolf Halton
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 2:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Grub2 in May or June

LILO was an option on RedHat 9 - 10 years ago.  Is that ancient?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 01:55 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> Ah!
>>
>> 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.
>
> Slack still uses it I think.  I did a slack install a year ago or so,
> and it was lilo.
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The last time something told me it had to use LILO for my setup, I went
>> behind its back and installed GRUB2.  :)
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2012 1:35 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com
>> <mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Not sure if you're being pedantic or serious.
>>
>>     As a hint:  lilo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf
>>     Of mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>
>>     Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 1:07 PM
>>     To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>>     Subject: Re: [ale] Grub2 in May or June
>>
>>     On 03/19/2012 09:50 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>      > I notice you don't hear much about the pre-GRUB boot loader any more.
>>      > Do you suppose it has decided to lie low?
>>
>>     To what, exactly, are you referring?  At least on all my systems, BIOS
>>     starts GRUB, so the only thing that is pre-GRUB is the system firmware
>>     itself.
>>
>>             --- Mike
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