On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:04:10PM +1200, Krsnendu dasa wrote: :My most recent install of Ubuntu 8.04 it chose LVM. As a result lilo :was installed instead of grub. Is there a reason for this? Are there :any advantages or disadvantages of one over the other?
Grub is better in many ways but needs to read from the filesystem at boot time and can't understand LVM. The "right thing" would have been for the installer to create a small ext3 /boot filesystem that grub could understand an then put everything else in LVM. Grub is better becasue it allows you a much more useful bootloader command line, so if you really screw up your system you have a better time getting it back. It also reads its config file from disk where as lilo needs to be run on the comamnd line after updating its config to get the changes into the boot block, then if you screw them up you may be in a world of hurt because you can't do much from the lilo: boot prompt (like select a kernel that you forgot to define or mistyped in lilo.conf) That all said if you don't do anything odd and use official stable release packages for you kernel, you probably won't notice any difference and everything will "just work". -Jon -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
