Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:09:18 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: remove LILO
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 02:57:16 -0200
Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> wrote:

> Remove LILO from the README in order to keep the booting section
> agnostic.  LILO development has also officially stopped.

I know I mentioned LILO before, but LILO is really a symptom of the problem
here and not the problem itself.  The real problem is that this document
doesn't really reflect how things are done on most systems; simply excising
mentions of LILO doesn't really fix that.

Or, for example:

> +   The kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or
> +   /boot/bzImage.  To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image and copy
> +   the new image over the old one.

Do you have any of those files on your system?  I think that kernels in the
root are quite scarce anymore, and most of them don't have such simple
names.  I would love to see all this fixed, but making it look updated
without doing the job properly doesn't really help our users much, I think.

Thanks,

jon
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