2015-02-08 22:13 GMT+01:00 T.J. Duchene <t.j.duchene@???>:
> On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:00:01 PM dng-request@??? wrote:
>> From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@???>
>> To: bill.m.moss@???
>> CC: Dng@???
>> Date: Today 04:01:42 AM
>>
>
>>
>> "NOTE: I plan to finish development of LILO at 12/2015 because of some
>> limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop
>> this nice software further, please let me know ..."
>>
>> http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
>>
>> Conclusions? If we want to use lilo, then, we need to add this
>> functionality. I like this idea, but this means a lot of work :/
>>
>> Daniel
> With the greatest respect intended toward your situation, Daniel, LILO is
> something that should have been retired a long time ago. GRUB is by far the
> better maintained boot-loader.
>
> If you are still using LILO on old machines (pre-2008) or machines with
> questionable EFI compatibility, I'd recommend grub-legacy instead. Everyone
> else that actually has a decent UEFI firmware should be using GRUB2 by now.
>
> The newer versions of Windows will not dual boot into UEFI mode without UEFI
> support in the loader. Even if you hate Windows intensely, and never use it,
> you should be using GPT rather than MBR. GPT not only offers support for
> partitions/drives larger than 2 TB, it also has better redundancy than MBR.
> If the MBR area (first sectors) of a drive is physically unreadable, then the
> entire disk might (not always) be rendered unusable . GPT keeps a copy of the
> partition table at the beginning of the drive and a backup at the end of the
> disk, greatly increasing your chances of recovery should the first sectors of
> the drive fail.

This is my posting:

https://www.mail-archive.com/dng@lists.dyne.org/msg00480.html

I use linux even without partition... with Grub 2 :) In this thread
you can note that the Grub 2 does not have too many fans. In my
opinion, the best choice is extlinux... but we discuss the same topic
in two threads.

Daniel


> T.J.