[Techtalk] Lilo maintainer

kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net
Thu Jul 18 00:07:33 EST 2002


At 05:43 PM 7/17/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Matt,
>
>Before you go sending to anyone, I'd check first that what you've 
>discovered isnt already in the documentation. Lilo has extensive doco, and 
>theres a good chance that the issue of another OS overwriting the MBR 
>being fixed by rerunning lilo is already documented. It might not mention 
>any OS by name, but it will mention the problem.
>
>Lilo itself cant do anything if something else overwrites the MBR. But 
>maybe the solution to your problem could be made more prominent in an faq 
>perhaps.
>
>On my sys, the lilo doc is in /usr/share/doc/lilo
>
>I'd go poking around there first.
>
>Hamster
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > People at work have convinced me to send my INIT issue and the details to
> > the maintainer of Lilo. Trouble is I can't find it with a search on Google.
> >
> > Does one person have responsibility for Lilo or is it different people for
> > different distributions?
> >
> > Rgs,
> >
> > Matt
> >

Hi...

Why use lilo at al when you ave grub? Grub is more advanced, easy to use, 
and way better than lilo. RHL is gradually trying to replace lilo with 
grub...so it's good to start learning now.

HTH





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