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On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 21:40:30 -0500
begin "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> As a result of another thread I have a question on LILO and GRUB. I was
>
> under the impression that GRUB was to replace LILO for various reasons
> (supposedly better in some way - handles booting over 1024 cylinders,
> etc.) but a lot of people are sticking with LILO. Is LILO being phased
> out? What are the pros and cons of each?
LILO: handles 1024+ cylinders just fine and is being upgraded regularly
by the lilo folks (only being phased out by Caldera AFAICT). supports any
OS. you can boot into a different image temporarily ( -R option). for me,
the best for remote administration, since it tells you if it can find the
image (i.e., did I do something stupid like fat-finger a key -- I'm good
at that); disadvantages is that you have to remember to run lilo when you
install a new kernel image (never been a problem for me, just automatic
anymore). should write it to the MBR or you could have trouble one day.
GRUB: well, after my run-in w/ the GNU GRUB folks over their lack of
anything except info pages as documentation (we don't write man pages,
this is GNU/Linux), I refuse to look at this crap (or hear about their
propaganda). Besides, if I fat-finger a key, I only find out after I
reboot, and if the box is 5,000 miles away, I have a long trip to make to
fix it.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
- --
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
-- Nemesis Racing Team motto
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