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Author: Peter Olson
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To: dng, Rick Moen
Subject: Re: [DNG] Bootloaders (was: SystemD's brownie points over non-systemd OSs)
> On August 9, 2016 at 1:52 PM Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
> GRUB is a capable and flexible bootloader, but practically all of the
> reasons commonly cited for it being preferable to LILO boil down to "I
> once messed with my boot files before reading LILO documentation, shot
> myself in the foot, and therefore blame LILO."


Of course, it is difficult to shoot yourself in the foot with GRUB ...
</sarcasm>

I have a machine in that state right now, and rather than try to debug it at the Grub prompt, I am just going to reinstall the system. My data is all in another partition, so it is really the easiest way to proceed.

Peter Olson