2008/11/27 s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 06:42:25PM +0100, Martin B?hr wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:53:14PM +0000, Florian Rehnisch wrote: >> > > BTW: recently converted a lilo box into a grub one. >> > >> > the obligatory question i have to ask every time someone wants to replace >> > lilo with grub: >> > >> > can grub do animation yet? >> > like this: >> > http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/ >> >> Oh lovely. So they waste time on useless crap like that, but still >> can't read an arbitrary kernel from a filesystem yet. >> >> No wonder grub is replacing it. > > BS. Both of them have their place and their uses. Slackware distros > don't need grub. I've seen many a distro's grub installer clobber the > existing grub without asking. And running a four letter command after ^^^^^^^^^^ BTW, when you edit grubs menu.lst "the Debian way", you have to run a 11 letter command (update-grub) ;-)
> changing lilo's config is not a lot to have to deal with to keep it > working. Yeah, grub's great and works. So's lilo, and sometimes it's > the better choice under those circumstances. > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 > - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Siehe http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html
