On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 06:42 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting William Pitcock ([email protected]): > > lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and > > the widespread availability of alternatives. > > > > I do not have time to manage the removal at this point, but it will be > > gone by June. > > > This is a heads up mail for the D-I team. > > Don't we have some install paths that still depend on LILO?
We do, in lilo-installer. Such as booting directly from LVM. But with increasing maturity of grub2, this does not seem necessary anymore. > > Anyway, even if we don't, I think we should track that lilo removal > and coordinate with William, in order to stop providing > lilo-installer. I agree. > > And, I think this should be mentioned as a release goal (dropping > lilo). Either high priority if we have install paths depending on > lilo, or normal priority otherwise. I agree here too. I think these install paths could be replaced by ext2linux as well, if that is what is needed to be done. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
