On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:10:05PM +0530, Vinu Moses wrote: > > What do people on this list use or prefer - LILO or GRUB? >
No idea ... put it to vote perhaps ;-) > I personally prefer LILO, Me too ... > though I use both on different boxes and was wondering why a > lot of distros are switching to GRUB instead of LILO. Not sure. RH has GRUB as the first choice, but you can switch at installation options to LILO. Slack is LILO by default, so is Knoppix and Debian. Don't know status of SuSE, MDK and other major distros presently. > > LILO > * has no interactive command interface. > You can pass commands at boot prompt (if you catered for it, or press Ctrl-x at the LILO menu). > * cannot read ext2 partitions. > (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-lilo.html) Interesting. Will look this up. It seems odd. LILO and loadlin were things we began with. I have used loadlin and LILO boot right from the first ext file systems on kernel 1.0.x, and through right upto ext3 in kernel 2.4.x ... There was no GRUB when we installed Linux in the mid-90s. Don't expect a RH doc coming up with such a statement ... > > * Versions of LILO after 22.2 require nasm > (http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/lfs/lfs-faq/lfs-faq.html#AEN134) > Don't understand this too. Does not seem correct. In distros we are not compiling LILO from source. This is my current setup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lilo -V LILO version 22.5.7.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# which nasm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# (This is on Slack-9.1. I don't have nasm installed as of now !) > > Are there any other compelling reasons why one should move to > GRUB instead of LILO? > LILO is a two stage boot process, and you need to re-write the MBR with every edit of lilo.conf. In theory, there are chances of MBR getting corrupted or damaged with every write to MBR ... I have not faced such a situation so far. I really do not know if there are any other disadvantages. I find LILO easier to handle ... Just my POV Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Restarting a service in RedHat/ Fedora LOST #575 Type in console service "service" restart and it will restart ("service" is the name of service that you want restart) e.g. # service httpd restart ####[rock (at) scorpionn.com ]################################ : ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
