Florian Xaver escreveu: > > Why does most people like GRUB? I don't like it. :-) I think, there are > > many better boot-managers.
>I can answer for myself: I don't like it, I just have in in my machine ;-) > >Let me explain: I use Mandrive Linux which just give me 2 choices: Lilo >or Grub. Unless I were willing to spend a lot of time learning to >install something else and never use the crash recover capabilities, I >am stuck with it. > >I just could not find in LILO how to change active partition at boot >time (for Fdos/win98 boot) and swap partitions (needed for WinXP). > >So I am stuck with GRUB, which BTW works just fine and the later version >has a better look :) > >Alain Hi Alain: The Linux installers I've used have an option to install their boot manager (either Lilo or Grub typically) in the "/" partition instead of the MBR. If you install them that way, you can use any boot manager in the MBR and that boot loader starts GRUB or LILO. This is what I do on my machines that boot Linux. I use GAG installed in the MBR as the boot manager and GRUB is started from the "/" partition. I find configuring GRUB just too much trouble! GAG is open source (GPL) and available from gag.sourceforge.net. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
