hi, Comparing to the linux specific LILO, GRUB has built in support for a lot of different boot media, IDE, SCSI, network, etc. GRUB can boot a lot of different OS-es and knows quite a lot of different file systems formats. GRUB can find a file in a file system and boot this image, whereas LILO has to know the disk sector before loading the image. So if the file changes LILO has to be re-installed. GRUB can read the filesystem and find the image by name.
rgds 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-lil o.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=ick _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.572 / Virus Database: 362 - Release Date: 1/27/2004 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
