I use lilo on assorted tired old bits of kit.
The fact it can't cope with GPT and what have you isn't a problem.
I will be using lilo on old kit until they fall over.

Grub1 was getting a bit tired. I can understand why they felt grub2 was
needed.
I was running debian unstable during the changeover from grub to grub2.
What fun was had! For a couple of weeks you were never sure if your
computer would boot after an upgrade.
I got really good at working around that.

DaveT

(managed to hit reply instead of reply to list! oops)

On 19/01/16 16:02, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:48:40 -0000
> "dev1fanboy" <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:
>
>> Hopefully something will happen with it, personally I'd use grub but
>> it does some fancy stuff I'm not a fan of.
> Grub is the systemd of bootloaders. It's all about pretty colors, nice
> images, and hiding the fact that processes are being instantiated.
>
> What's so sad is that grub 1 was wonderful. One file, everything was
> easy and obvious. Grub2 has different but similar executables, and you
> go traipsing all over a tree of numbered files to change every little
> thing, or else unauthorizedly change the already compiled version and
> hope nothing overrides it.
>
> SteveT
>
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