On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Michael Melcher
Hi Tomas,
I would say go for the removal. As far as I remember LiLo can't boot EFI Setups and needs DOS Partitions.
No, LILO does not need DOS partition.
There's another Project called elilo [1] which can do the above.
These are two entirely different software.
But since all Variants of *suse (Tumbleweed, Leap, SLE) use Grub as default anyway and don't offer LiLo during install, I don't see a reason to keep LiLo.
Not supporting GUI frontend for configuring does not mean it should not be supported on updates. We do not support configuring GRUB legacy with YaST either, still when you update system that was using GRUB legacy you continue to use it (including correct bootloader configuration update on kernel install/remove).
Also the Development of LiLo seems to have stagnated. Last Release was in 2015-11-22 [2] Last Git Commit was in 2015-11-22 [3]
And?
[1] http://elilo.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/lilo/ [3] https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=100507
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Tomas Chvatal
wrote: Hello everyone,
during update and split of lvm2 package we detected failure [1] in lilo to build because of broken br/r set on device-mapper.
Now the easy solution is to replace that device-mapper-32bit with the proper split-out library and be done with it. But I would like to figure out if we have still some people using the lilo now.
Installer does support only grub2 and lilo is quite archaic today. I would then propose to remove lilo from Factory instead of just fixing it and leaving be.
Cheers
Tom
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