Red pill me on GRUB

Is it really better than LILO? Really?

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  1. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    bro, lilo isn't even shipped with anything, did you time travel from 20 years ago?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, it comes with Slackware and I believe there is package in Gentoo for it.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's shipped with ubuntu and debian
      what more do you need?
      Lilo is good but it doesn't support encryption

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Just use Limine at this point. It's so much better than what's out there atm it's not even close. Worst part is getting a configuration file going.

        Debian and Ubuntu use GRUB now, and it has been the default for quite a long time now.

        >turn on computer
        >its boots to grub
        >it just works
        why do you need more

        I dislike GRUB because it loves to break on you for insane reasons.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      LI

      only boomers will understand

      LILO is better but it may not work for modern computers

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >lilo is better
        >but it doesn't work
        LOL

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          works on my machine

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            name processor, distro, and distro version

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            lilo works on bios
            elilo for gpt (never tried though)

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            name processor, distro, and distro version

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            works on any hardware as long as it uses bios

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            notice how you won't name processor, distro, and distro version

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            i7, slackware 14.2
            there

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Slackware 14.2 release notes. Thu Jun 30 2016
            >2016
            LOL

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            i7, slackware 14.2
            there

            >Slackware 14.2 release notes. Thu Jun 30 2016
            >2016
            LOL

            slackwate 15 is worse since it has partial systemd, so what you gonna do

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >worse since it has partial systemd
            explain why systemd is bad, you can't

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            it doesnt work with very old RAID cards so cant boot from a RAID card

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            that's the dumbest lie i've heard on the board in the past week

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        elilo works on efi

  2. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    LI

    only boomers will understand

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous
  3. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >redpill me on the de facto standard thing that has worked for decades
    I don't know if I can, you're too moronic

  4. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    LILO got filtered because it refused to updoot itself, bootloader efforts migrated to GRUB

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      why a standardized bootloader needs to be any different from what it is

      what would and update do?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Workarounds for shitty BIOSes, filesystem support, 3rd party OS support since a lot of Loonixers dualboot with Shitdowns or something else

  5. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think LILO even works with EFI/GPT

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      ELILO

  6. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >his distro doesn't package it anymore
    https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/lilo

  7. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I never quite understood what is it supposed to do that needs 500k lines

  8. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    i use systemd

  9. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why would you even want to use this? Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma or something?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      bro, lilo isn't even shipped with anything, did you time travel from 20 years ago?

      >noooo you must updoot

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >anti updating
        >uses anything past DOS
        you're a fricking hypocrite

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ummm, the colors are nice?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      cause it works?

  10. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I use systemd boot.

  11. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can't wait for systemd-boot to take over GRUB. Compared to GRUB its lot simpler

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      1. systemd-boot doesn't support BIOS and won't ever
      2. EFISTUB is superior to systemd-boot, systemd-boot is bloat

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        1. It's getting harder and harder to find use for BIOS hardware since most, if not all, 64 bit platforms use EFI and arm does whatever the frick it wants
        2. Since it's already a part of systemd you end up reducing waste by putting it to use + efibootmgr scary

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >It's getting harder and harder to find use for BIOS hardware since most, if not all, 64 bit platforms use EFI
          Libreboot does not support UEFI.
          >Since it's already a part of systemd you end up reducing waste by putting it to use
          I don't use Systemd
          >efibootmgr scary
          No it's not.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        it doesn't support FDE

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Can they be made look like this as easily?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Not GRUB_TIMEOUT=0'ing
        anon...

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm GRUB_TIMEOUT=2'ing

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >White SIR

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      same here, systemd-boot is comfy

      1. systemd-boot doesn't support BIOS and won't ever
      2. EFISTUB is superior to systemd-boot, systemd-boot is bloat

      >systemd-boot doesn't support BIOS and won't ever
      no system shipped in the last 12-13 years uses BIOS anymore. any decently modern system uses UEFI. the fricking Core 2 Duo machine I had back in 2008 supported UEFI. if yours doesn't it's time to upgrade, son

  12. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    wouldn't know i use zfsbootmanager

  13. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bootloader is bloat, use efistub.

  14. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    last in last out?
    sounds moronic

  15. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    lilo has saner configuration
    I don't even edit my grub config and would just generate one, because grub config is such a clusterfrick

  16. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >turn on computer
    >its boots to grub
    >it just works
    why do you need more

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      anti systemd idiots are the stupidest most illogical morons there are. don't expect any good or ration answer from them. systemd is totally fine and has been for like 13 years

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        One of the most triumphant victors over the past couple years has been to build the ROS robotics stack on slackware, meaning I can finally ditch ubuntu and systemd for all time. If you like systemd, good for you. It has never ceased to be a pain in my ass.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          systemd is fine. why is it a pain in the ass for you, name very specific examples. i bet you can't. let me guess, the tired old hanging job meme? fix you broken job

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >a stobjob is running

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            so fix your broken job. what the frick is wrong with you? why are you so bad at using linux? i'm running debian stable, this problem does not exist. why do you keep spreading the same dead meme when it's literally your fault?

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            i switched to dinit and never had such problems ever again

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            but you lied, the problem doesn't exist with systemd. you're just lying over and over

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            nope

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            yup

            systemd is bloated

            nope, and it follows the unix philosophy. there's like 30 binaries and each is a few kilobytes. you're just wrong and a liar

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >30 binaries
            >its not bloated because they are small
            You are mentally disabled

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            what's the problem exactly? other than you're a moron

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >the init is only 30 binaries

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            it's not an init you moron, answer literally any question you fricking homosexual

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            systemd is bloated

  17. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    alpine linux uses syslinux. simple as.

  18. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically, what still uses LILO?
    Maybe an embedded thing? Haven't seen it on x86 in 15 years.

  19. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I remember when distros asked to choose between lilo or stitch, these were the times

  20. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes, but systemD-boot as well as rEFInd and Limine are better

  21. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

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