2015-02-08 22:13 GMT+01:00 T.J. Duchene <[email protected]>: > On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:00:01 PM [email protected] wrote: >> From: Daniel Cegiełka <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> Date: Today 04:01:42 AM >> > >> >> "NOTE: I plan to finish development of LILO at 12/2015 because of some >> limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop >> this nice software further, please let me know ..." >> >> http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ >> >> Conclusions? If we want to use lilo, then, we need to add this >> functionality. I like this idea, but this means a lot of work :/ >> >> Daniel > With the greatest respect intended toward your situation, Daniel, LILO is > something that should have been retired a long time ago. GRUB is by far the > better maintained boot-loader. > > If you are still using LILO on old machines (pre-2008) or machines with > questionable EFI compatibility, I'd recommend grub-legacy instead. Everyone > else that actually has a decent UEFI firmware should be using GRUB2 by now. > > The newer versions of Windows will not dual boot into UEFI mode without UEFI > support in the loader. Even if you hate Windows intensely, and never use it, > you should be using GPT rather than MBR. GPT not only offers support for > partitions/drives larger than 2 TB, it also has better redundancy than MBR. > If the MBR area (first sectors) of a drive is physically unreadable, then the > entire disk might (not always) be rendered unusable . GPT keeps a copy of the > partition table at the beginning of the drive and a backup at the end of the > disk, greatly increasing your chances of recovery should the first sectors of > the drive fail.
This is my posting: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00480.html I use linux even without partition... with Grub 2 :) In this thread you can note that the Grub 2 does not have too many fans. In my opinion, the best choice is extlinux... but we discuss the same topic in two threads. Daniel > T.J. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
