Perhaps it's not so important to anyone else, but if I need to boot a system which has a horked up bootloader and they can't find the emergency boot disk with all the nice partition information laid out for LILO (or grub), I can, with a minimum amount of information, boot that system with it's normal kernel/modules/etc... I've not had such good luck with LILO. (which makes GRUB a nice physical access hacking tool as well :)
begin Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:04:20 -0500) > I use both grub and lilo (different systems). both are nice. I really dont > care for one or the other. But I have to say that GRUB being able to > 'understand' a given filesystem is a misfeature. It doesn't buy you anything. > In fact, I've personally seen a machine that had a trashed fs on it that > freaked grub out. lilo didn't have any issue getting the machine to boot far > enough for a fsck. why? cause grub used the fs (which was toast) where lilo > knew where on disk to start reading and executing code -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration & Support *Web Development and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
