I believe the cusp point for removing lilo has come and gone. The last time I actually saw the thing anywhere was 2004. I have 150+ servers here, a huge mix of IBM, Intel and Sun hardware running a mix of Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux and some date back to 2001. There's no consistency - admins simply installed what they wanted at the time, so there's almost at least one of everything, and:
lilo is not on a single machine. It never got installed anywhere. Yes it is important to know how to drive lilo on a lilo-equipped machine, but they are rare and in no way common. Besides, anyone who passes LPIC-1 probably has the skills to google how lilo works should that need arise. It's one page to read, we all do that 10s of times a day anyway Apparently, though unproven, at 12:08 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Marianne Spiller did opine thusly: > Hi, > > but as an administrator, you should be able to work on "outdated" > machines - and most of them are using LILO. It is important to know > how to handle it when needed, and it's not that complicated. > > So I would suggest to keep it. > > Best regards, > Marianne > > Quoting Simone Piccardi <picca...@truelite.it>: > > Il 12/01/2011 17:36, G. Matthew Rice ha scritto: > >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Frank Bergmann > >> > >> <tuxad-...@tuxad.com> wrote: > >>> talking about obsolete or latest boot loaders it may be worth to think > >>> about other boot loaders as topics of LPI exams. > >>> Many Linux users with just basic skills dare to flash their DSL-routers > >>> (successfully) with OpenWRT or other "embedded" distros with "Das > >>> U-Boot" as boot loader. And U-Boot is a flexible boot loader for very > >>> different kinds of embedded and other hardware. IMHO U-Boot is used > >>> more times than lilo these days. > >> > >> Guys, look a little closer at the objectives. GRUB _and_ lilo are > >> covered. > >> > >> And lilo isn't quite dead yet. It still has uses. > > > > I'm failing to see which they are. > > > > None of my client is using LILO. And I don't remember last time I saw a > > machine using it. But for sure is mode than two years. > > > > But its marginal uses are not relevant for me, there is no major > > distribution is using it, for at least two major release, and I cannot > > see how LILO knowledge can be a measure of sysadmin competence, excepted > > from an historical point of view.. > > > > So I strongly suggest to remove it completely. > > > > Regards > > Simone > > _______________________________________________ > > lpi-examdev mailing list > > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
