On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, David Walser wrote:

> > Does grub suffer the same disability?
> > Most other distros use grub by default.  Why don't we?
> > 
> > Austin
> 
> We did for one release, hopefully we never do again.  It was a disaster 
> and a support nightmare.

IIRC it was 7.1, back when grub could do >1024 cylinders, and LILO could 
not ... not only that, but it was the first release to ship with Reiser 
... boy was I glad when I had the chance to upgrade a production machine 
from 7.1 to 8.0!

Buchan

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