On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:46:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:04:17AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> >
> > In recent years, as I got progressively more irritated with byzantinely
> > overengineered distro-packaged software barging onto my Linux systems, I
> > actually checked to see about just, y'know, switching back to lilo. Two
> > problems:
> >
> > 1. lilo's been orphaned for about half a year (since Dec. 2015).
>
> As far as I can remember, iko's been orphaned at least half a year. But
> it just keeps on booting.

Typos: I meant:

For years now, I've heard that lilo's been orphaned recently.

>

> > 2.  lilo can't support EFI/GPT, only old-school IBM/Microsoft disk
> >     formatting with an MBR as opposed to GPT, etc.

>
> I use lilo to boot from a floppy. My system (includding /boot) is on a
> software RAID within partitions on two EFI disk. It works.
>
> I guess the floppy manages to get around the EFI restrictions?
>
> -- hendrik
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