On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 07:28:33 -0500
dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively:
>begin David A. Bandel's quote:
>
>| 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.
>
>suse is going to it, too, which means unitedlinux will grub. perhaps
>most annoying is that the suse installer in 8.x doesn't offer a
>choice at install time, so it needs to be fiddled with afterwards,
>which is a scarcely well-documented procedure.
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Not sure about the 8.0 version, but RH 7.3, though defaulting to GRUB, did
provide the option of using lilo instead on one of the insatallation screens.
Mike
--
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949
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