Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:09:18 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] README: remove LILO |
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 02:57:16 -0200 Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> wrote:
> Remove LILO from the README in order to keep the booting section > agnostic. LILO development has also officially stopped.
I know I mentioned LILO before, but LILO is really a symptom of the problem here and not the problem itself. The real problem is that this document doesn't really reflect how things are done on most systems; simply excising mentions of LILO doesn't really fix that.
Or, for example:
> + The kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or > + /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image and copy > + the new image over the old one.
Do you have any of those files on your system? I think that kernels in the root are quite scarce anymore, and most of them don't have such simple names. I would love to see all this fixed, but making it look updated without doing the job properly doesn't really help our users much, I think.
Thanks,
jon
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