On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:33:22AM +0530, Ashwin D wrote:
>
>> I've posted quite a few mails for help about grub... but haven't gotten
>> much of a response... I suppose most people still use lilo....
>
>Any reason why we should switch to grub?
What I liked about grub are the following things :
1. No 1024 cylinder barrier
2. There is option in grub to edit the parameters passed to the kernel or
if you want to boot a different kernel than that can be done too. All
this can be done while the boot menu of grub is displayed on the
screen:-)
For lilo if something does not work than you have to boot either a
different kernel / boot through floppy, then edit lilo.conf and than lilo
-v. This stuff is avoided which is really nice.
3. Grub is similar to a micro os. You can create a grub boot disk and
using that you can load any os if u know some grub commands such as for
loading kernel / loading os's such as win98.
4. There is also a nice menu which is displayed and you can select the os
by using up and down keys.
I have not gone through the docs of grub fully, but there will be still a
lot of features about which I am not aware of. The documentation is
excellent. The deb file of Grub contains html documentation.
Regards
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Rajesh Fowkar
(Computer Programmer)
V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD., PANAJI-GOA
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