Alternative Boot Loaders

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:40:49PM +0100, Matt Darcy wrote:
> I'm trying to establish the reasoning behind including alternative boot 
> loaders such as lilo on the ubuntu alternative and server cds ?
> 
> Was this a technical decision ?
> Was this a policy decision ?
> 
> could someone please explain the decision and the reasons behind it.

Some configurations are not supported by GRUB, as it works by reading the
filesystem and it does not understand all filesystems and storage
configurations.

The Debian installer, upon which the alternate and server CDS are based,
provides both GRUB and LILO as options, so they are both available to Ubuntu
users as well.

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 - mdz