[Gllug] Lilo/Grub

[Stephen Harker]

Doug Winter wrote:
> Stephen Harker wrote:
> 
>> How do you make Debian run update-grub instead of lilo after 
>> installing a new kernel?
>>
>> On boxes that were installed with Sarge and grub, this works. However 
>> older dist-upgrades from Woody that had lilo still want to run lilo 
>> after installing a new kernel even if you've removed lilo and 
>> installed grub...
> 
> 
> I suspect you need to purge lilo, rather than just uninstall it.  If 
> lilo isn't present and grub is it runs upgrade-grub automagically.
> 
> On newer systems, grub seems preferable to lilo for pretty much 
> everything.  I just wish it had a sane way of specifying devices :(

Oh it's not that bad really :-)

Stephen
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