On 28/04/07, Jonas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raphael Wimmer wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:13:37 +0200, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> i'm wondering if it's possible to switch from using LILO to GRUB.
>
> GRUB is working on my MBP C2D, Debian Lenny.
> I think I installed it during Debian installation, however.
> IIRC you should not run gptsync, as GRUB won't recognize the boot
> partition anymore and fails to start.
My experience: I've tried both and they work fine-ish as long as you use
grub 0.97-r3 (or apply a patch to the previous version). I never needed
to use gptsync to switch. I personally prefer grub since changing
default kernel is a matter of editing a text file, but I guess it is
mostly a matter of taste.
However, by "fine-ish" above I mean that both of them suffer from the
keyboard flakiness issue: ~4 times out of 5, the keyboard will not work
to select kernel, so you WILL boot on the default kernel after the
timeout. During testing this is rather annoying, but once everything is
in place it is OK.
IFAIK, the keyboard issue is C2D specific - I sure have had it on both
my C2D boxes. Some claim it is the initial Apple bootup stuff that
leaves it in a non-reliable state. Refit always works fine and once the
USB modules are loaded it also seems pretty stable - on the odd
occasion, but touchpad has gone strange (movement insists on a
particular corner) but reloading the modules then helps.
/ Jonas
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so switching from lilo to grub is as easy as uninstalling lilo and
installing grub? nothing else needs to be done?
-Nick
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