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Everybody complaining about grub forgot about lilo

Hehe I was like: What?! Grub was LiLo’s successor and much better! What happened to the time?!

Back in the day I had a cool self made theme from Ghost in the Shell, I remember making some very obscure image format from some jpeg I found online. Man what time I have put into customizing my Linux experiences. The computer was truly a (well trimmed) pet. With desktops on kubes with fish inside and reflections etc.

Oh dear, you transported me back to 2003

ITYM Lilililililililililili....

RIP. Pouring one out for Linux loader.

Lilo is still alive and kicking on Slackware ;)

Does LILO work on EFI systems or is GRUB preferred in that case? I’ve not built a Slackware box in a long time… maybe this evening I’ll see about putting a VM together

Slack ships elilo package for EFI systems. AFAIK config (elilo.conf) should be pretty much the same as standard lilo.conf

I can’t think of a single reason to entertain Slackware or lilo. I have extensive experience with both.

I still prefer Syslinux but it's still not officially supporting UEFI yet :(

The only time I would want Grub is for that reason primarily. But it makes sense to be very familiar with Grub so you can not be screwed up by systems you encounter which may have been set up, "grub-reinstalled", or configured by those who are not as familiar as they should have been.

Once you do have a regular ordinary multiboot system or SSD that includes one or more Linux installs, with Grub working well, then adding the themes like this is only the icing on the cake.

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