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pjmlp
on April 13, 2024
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It's far from clear how grub package updates work ...
I miss LILO, life was song much simpler, to this day I barely understand grub beyond basic kernel parameters.
doug713705
on April 13, 2024
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You may have a look attt elilo which is lilo with efi support. Slackware still ship it.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/
pjmlp
on April 13, 2024
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Cool, specially now that I am dealing with a pure UEFI motherboard.
nurettin
on April 13, 2024
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20 something years ago, LILO was default on many distros and you had a choice. Not sure how grub took over.
nineteen999
on April 14, 2024
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> Not sure how grub took over.
Flexibility.
derekp7
on April 13, 2024
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The isolinux package has boot methods that work on HDs, and are set up very similar to LILO. Not sure why it never took off with distros.
endgame
on April 13, 2024
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I have fond memories of using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make DOS bootdisks which loaded themselves into RAM. Mostly to play games in the library.
Zardoz84
on April 13, 2024
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I miss LOADLIN
microtonal
on April 13, 2024
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LOADLIN with UMSDOS certainly brings back memories.
sedatk
on April 13, 2024
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lathiat
on April 15, 2024
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-2 points, yikes.. not sure if if that's 3 angry people that had to deal with LILO not working or 3 people thinking I was just spamming who never had the pleasure of dealing with LILO.
the_oh_of_ples
on April 13, 2024
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