On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:58:36 +0000
> "Paul Jewell" <paul@teulu.org> wrote:
>
> > When I installed my system back in January, I started off with 64 bit
> > only, and immediately hit a problem with grub compilation.
>
> Why not just use lilo?  Lilo doesn't need the kernel to boot the
> system and it compiles on pure 64-bit systems.
>
> I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed
> into the Linux world without merit.  Lilo does the job just as well.
>

Frank Peters
>
>
+1