Re: Issue in man page boot.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 6/18/23 22:05, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 13:11:29 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> Hello Alejandro,
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> On 3/11/23 18:13, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>>>> Without further ado, the following was found:
>>>>
>>>> Issue:    This is true only on x86 and Lilo is probably not much used anymore; also systemd has its own (?) bootloader
>>
>> Lilo has just been removed from Debian, so to my knowledge only Mageia
>> ships it.
>>
> 
> FWIW, Gentoo still has LILO in the repos. This doesn't change the fact
> that it probably does not see much use anymore. Definitely not enough to
> warrant being mentioned as "is often". Maybe a historical note, if
> anything.
> 
> - Oskari
Hi!

Thanks for that.  I've fixed it with this patch.

Cheers,
Alex

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 From d5e4e25e5c1a251dd503f11c516bf3d081eef080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 17:34:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] boot.7: LILO is not often used anymore

On 6/18/23 22:05, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
 > On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 13:11:29 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
 >> Hello Alejandro,
 >> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
 >>> On 3/11/23 18:13, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
 >>>> Without further ado, the following was found:
 >>>>
 >>>> Issue:    This is true only on x86 and Lilo is probably not much
 >>>>           used anymore; also systemd has its own (?) bootloader
 >>
 >> Lilo has just been removed from Debian, so to my knowledge only
 >> Mageia ships it.
 >>
 >
 > FWIW, Gentoo still has LILO in the repos.  This doesn't change the
 > fact that it probably does not see much use anymore.  Definitely not
 > enough to warrant being mentioned as "is often".  Maybe a historical
 > note, if anything.

Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Reported-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Cc: Mario Blaettermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---
  man7/boot.7 | 8 ++++----
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7
index dab4a1aac..b57f5a1bb 100644
--- a/man7/boot.7
+++ b/man7/boot.7
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ a primary OS loader and a secondary OS loader; this 
secondary
  OS loader may be located within a larger portion of persistent
  storage, such as a disk partition.
  .PP
-In Linux, the OS loader is often either
-.BR lilo (8)
-or
-.BR grub (8).
+In Linux, the OS loader is often
+.BR grub (8)
+(an alternative is
+.BR lilo (8)).
  .SS Kernel
  When the kernel is loaded, it initializes various components of
  the computer and operating system; each portion of software
-- 
2.40.1


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