On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, David Walser wrote: > > Does grub suffer the same disability? > > Most other distros use grub by default. Why don't we? > > > > Austin > > We did for one release, hopefully we never do again. It was a disaster > and a support nightmare.
IIRC it was 7.1, back when grub could do >1024 cylinders, and LILO could not ... not only that, but it was the first release to ship with Reiser ... boy was I glad when I had the chance to upgrade a production machine from 7.1 to 8.0! Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
