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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by pjmlp on Saturday April 13, 2024 @04:56AM (#40021616)
I miss LILO, life was song much simpler, to this day I barely understand grub beyond basic kernel parameters.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by doug713705 on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:40AM (#40021797)
You may have a look attt elilo which is lilo with efi support. Slackware still ship it. https://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by pjmlp on Saturday April 13, 2024 @06:03AM (#40021898)
Cool, specially now that I am dealing with a pure UEFI motherboard.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by derekp7 on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:26AM (#40021746)
The isolinux package has boot methods that work on HDs, and are set up very similar to LILO. Not sure why it never took off with distros.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by endgame on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:38AM (#40021787)
I have fond memories of using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make DOS bootdisks which loaded themselves into RAM. Mostly to play games in the library.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by nurettin on Saturday April 13, 2024 @07:50AM (#40022479)
20 something years ago, LILO was default on many distros and you had a choice. Not sure how grub took over.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by nineteen999 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:45PM (#40033820)
> Not sure how grub took over.

Flexibility.

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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by Zardoz84 on Saturday April 13, 2024 @04:58AM (#40021629)
I miss LOADLIN
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by danieldk on Saturday April 13, 2024 @06:21AM (#40021968)
LOADLIN with UMSDOS certainly brings back memories.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by sedatk on Saturday April 13, 2024 @06:14AM (#40021937)
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by lathiat on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:11AM (#40021685)
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by the_oh_of_ples on Saturday April 13, 2024 @05:14AM (#40021693)
The Boxen.
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Re:It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu by lathiat on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:58AM (#40038872)
-2 points, yikes.. not sure if if that's 3 angry people that had to deal with LILO not working or 3 people thinking I was just spamming who never had the pleasure of dealing with LILO.
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