Lilo Support Dropped from Yast

**69_rs_ss** · 12-Aug-2008, 20:32

Just to let everyone know in case they don't keep up with the Factory
ML, Lilo support is being dropped out of Yast in openSUSE 11.1. This is
_only_ for the i386 and x86_64 architecture's as I can tell.

**rddunlap** · 23-Dec-2008, 17:22

I realize that I'm very late in replying here, but this
is terrible. lilo is very easy to automate, while grub
is a pain, if possible at all.

And lilo used to be supported, so dropping it is a
regression. Really bad news.

regards,
~Randy

**ken_yap** · 23-Dec-2008, 17:42

Well LILO only works on i386 and x86_64 architectures anyway. PPC and other archs have their own bootloader.

I haven't missed LILO since going over to GRUB many years ago although I suppose there may be the odd old hardware out there that doesn't like GRUB. I don't miss having to rerun LILO after every edit to the config file.

**yaoting** · 04-Jan-2009, 19:46

I am cool with both Lilo and Grub. However, if there is a choice, I would use Lilo, since I used Lilo since Suse 6.4

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**bear454** · 13-Jan-2009, 23:41

I assume the packages aren't going away, just the maintenance tool for YaST. This could be a great opportunity for someone to move that config tool to the Contrib repo...

Although I don't have any stats to back it up, I would assume that most users go with their distro's recommended bootloader config, and don't muck with it. Since GRUB's been the default since... what 9.something?... I can see that the effort spent supporting Lilo could be better spent elsewhere.

**ofvergara** · 14-Jan-2009, 18:32

for some strange reason, grub never worked in my system/hdd. since 2006 i've been using LILO as my boot manager dual-booting SLED10 & XP.

I'm concerned to read that this tool is being dropped.
�how am i going to install SLED11 if LILO is not present and grub is not an option for me?

thanks for your replies.
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