From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:12:14 GMT, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2023-07-01, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   >>   
   >> (yes, I dare show up this many months later to follow up ...  ;-)   
   >   
   > Better late, than never!   
   >>   
   >>>> I've never used grub on a Slackware system ...   
   >>>   
   >>> You know, Grub is a little obscure.  I went through an uncomfortable   
   >>> learning process.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, I've used grub.  I'm not a fan, but can work with it well enough,   
   >> thus my not using it on Slackware systems.  Once you have it configured,   
   >> though, you just kind of forget that it's there.   
   >> I suppose that's its intent, for those that would repeatedly forget to   
   >> re-run lilo after updating a kernel.   
   >   
   > I like that Grub has a command line.  It's like a mini OS, and can do   
   > some useful things.  And it works well for me.  I've used it so long that   
   > I can't say what, if anything, makes it better.  I remember lilo vaguely.   
      
   I much prefer lilo, largely because I've been using it since, what, 1998? I   
   like its simplicity, and I have no reason to learn something else when what   
   I have works for me. (I haven't been a sysadmin in a very long time, so no   
   financial incentive, either.) If, for some reason, I install a distro that   
   uses grub, fine, as long as I don't have to configure it manually, but if I   
   have to give it the slightest bit of thought, it's lilo for me.   
      
   (If I wanted a mini-os at boot time, I'd probably loop in a disk image or   
   something. DOS would likely boot *very* quickly on my server, and there I'd   
   have access to 40+ years of tools for whatever task I needed to do. Until   
   about 11 years ago, I had a small DOS partition installed on every machine   
   of mine for exactly that reason, even the servers.)   
      
   --   
   I don't turn toward the light because it means someday I'll "win"   
   some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.   
      
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