On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:41:58 -0700 (PDT) John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you mean GRUB: GRand Unified Bootloader? > (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) or some food? :) What a kowinkydink! I was just converting over to GRUB last night (from the latest LILO) -- it looks pretty good and wasnt that difficult, I think i'll keep it in place. I was nudged into action by seeing the /. story from a few days ago that RH 7.2 would come with GRUB as its default bootloader. I figured if it had gotten good enough for the weenies, It's good enough for me :) Nah, I'd tried it before (back before it was GNU GRUB, and a time or two since) but never got it properly installed -- since it tries to be OS-neutral, and it invents it's own parlance for referring to disks and partitions. It's supposed to be better -- the command line is pretty good (wish it could list files tho), and the menu is pretty fair, and it seems more savvy about chainloaders and you dont need to reinstall it every time you build a new kernel. I'm not sure that the "old limitations" people cite about LILO still apply -- the old 1024 cylinder thingy's long been blown away. FWIW, the BSD bootloader(s) are pretty spiffy too. It was certainly less painful to install GRUB than it was to (manually) convert Slackware to shadow passwords and then to PAM. -- Mark Orr ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
