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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] lilo
On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Patrick Erdmann wrote:
> 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!


Yes. And it still works.

-- hendrik

>
> >
> > 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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