[Gllug] Lilo/Grub

[Doug Winter]

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 :(

Cheers,

Doug.


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