On 29.05.2016 22:42, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:37:08PM +0100, dev1fanboy wrote:
>>
>> Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer
>> as of recently.
>
> I'm happily using lilo to boot my server.
>
> From a floppy, yet.

And then you realized its 2016!

>
> The nice thing about a floppy disk drive is that it has as many boot
> records as you have floppy disks.
>
> If the boot record is damaged, you
> just pull one of your five backups off the shelf and use *that* to boot.
>
> And if you have more than one OS (I do -- different versions of Linux
> -- if the lilo stuff on disk gets damaged, I boot the other os (which
> has its own lilo stuff) using *its* ilo floppy.
>
> -- hendrik
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