On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 11:12:13AM +1100, terryc wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 13:03:35 -1000
> Joel Roth via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > Thank you all for the replies.
> >
> > I ended up copying over my home directory, and repeating a
> > bit of software installation and configuration in order to
> > skip a full clobber of the root directory.
> >
> > .Xauthority was automatically generated when I started X.
> >
> > I use all the same .ssh keys on both machines. Is that a
> > mistake? <glances over shoulder>

Only if the keys to one machine leak; then both will suddenly
be vunerable.

> >
> > No lilo at the moment. I liked it because it was so
> > small, not adding much conceptually to my system.
>
> I thought lilo pre-dated grub?
> And for <reasons> grub replaced it.

Lilo predated grub.
Lilo put the disk addresses of the kernel into the lilo
boot loader.
So you had to reconfigure lilo every time you updte the
kernel, or it wouldn;t boot any more.

grub did replace lilo.

I've heard of an elilo, but don't know much about it.

-- hendrik