I'm not really a fan of any bootloaders but grub2 has always worked
which is more than i can say for other bootloaders.

-- Gravis


On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Cegiełka
<daniel.cegielka@???> wrote:
> 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.
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