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Author: richard lucassen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] lilo development has ended
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:44:59 -0000
"dev1fanboy" <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:

> https://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
>
> The author has updated their site to say:
>
> "NOTE: I will finish development of LILO at December 2015 because of
> some limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to
> develop this nice software further, please let me know ..."
>
> So I assume lilo has stopped development altogether from the last
> release, and we can look forward to only having the more complex
> grub2.


Unless you use a small ext2 boot partition for your kernels. And for
raid: if you create an md device for /boot/ with --metadata=0.90 then
lilo will still work.

R.

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richard lucassen
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