On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:22:10AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | Noah Meyerhans wrote: | | > > PS: grub is definatelly a great bootloader, I think I'll never go back | > > to lilo. | > | > Same here, except on my machines with an XFS based root filesystem. | > Grub does not yet support XFS, so I had to resort to LILO. I looked in | > to writing XFS support for grub, but I am not familiar with filesystem | > coding to feel entirely comfortable. | | Uhh, have you tried to load lilo from grub via chainloader? That sounds | like fun. :) Of course, you would need to run lilo anyway, whenever
I haven't tried that, but I have chainloaded grub from itself -- just for fun trying out the various commands. :-) | you compile a new kernel, so one of grub's advantages -- recompiling | kernels without re-running grub -- would be lost. Too bad! But you | have the nicely colored boot menu for sure. :) | | > One complaint I do have about grub is the license. Grub itself is | > GPLed, but it contains code ripped from incompatible (license-wise) | > source. That's not good, and I think somebody with experience in such | > matters really needs to examine it. | | Hmm, this really sucks! Makes we wonder, I always thought that grub was | *the* *official* GNU bootloader. This could just be a rumour ... this is the first I have heard it, and I certainly hope it isn't true. (I'm not accusing Noah in any way, just hoping) I definitely don't want to see grub go through some nasty licensing wars. They're even worse than editor or language wars! -D
