-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

What do people on this list use or prefer - LILO or GRUB?

I personally prefer LILO, though I use both on different boxes and was 
wondering why a lot of distros are switching to GRUB instead of LILO.

The reasons in favour of GRUB that I could figure out were - 

LILO 
* has no interactive command interface.
* stores information about the location of the kernel or other operating 
system it is to load on the MBR.
* cannot read ext2 partitions.
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-lilo.html)

* Versions of LILO after 22.2 require nasm
(http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/lfs/lfs-faq/lfs-faq.html#AEN134)

Are there any other compelling reasons why one should move to GRUB 
instead of LILO?

Regards,
Vinu.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAg/LYfQe5A1YbfuURAj9bAJ974jPtu0xSoyBo9ikkaFJHvXHvewCg+ocX
EJmTIq5LKSKDtDOXgbSHbJU=
=pwfP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click
_______________________________________________
linux-india-help mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help

Reply via email to