Re: Issue in man page boot.7

Helge Kreutzmann
2023-06-17T11:16:37Z

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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.

> Please propose a fix for the wording.

Ok. To be conservative I would do the simple change:

> > "In Linux, the OS loader is often either B<lilo>(8) or B<grub>(8)."

In Linux, the OS loader is often B<grub>(8).

Greetings

Helge

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