Hi, folks
I have some facts which might interest you all...
1) In comming M 7.1 version, LILO is NOT a default bootloader anymore!
This role has been taken by "GRUB", mainly because it has a better user
interface.
2) LILO still gets configured, so if you choose GRUB on install and do not
like it just fire /sbin/lilo...
3) Commercial bootloaders such as bootmagic may be nice, but I do not
personally recomend it because we do not use these beasts ourselves and
basically have no idea about it.
4) if you put GRUB/LILO on /dev/hda3, and some other bootloader on MBR,
you can instruct that other bootloader to start GRUB/LILO. This is called
chainloading, and AFAIK you can even instruct GRUB/LILO to run whatever is
on MBR, thus creating a loop. .-)
cheers
Denis
:~>LILO is okay and all, but doing a custom install, I noticed other boot
:~>managers can be installed. How do they rate feature-wise with LILO?
:~>
:~>Here's the features near and dear to me:
:~>Ease of use (especially adding newly compiled kernel--much easier to compile
:~>than install I found).
:~>Easy to incorporate alternative OSes -- Win2k mainly.
:~>Easy to remove.
:~>
:~>I have a feeling boot managers are kind of like that saying: fast, reliable,
:~>secure - pick two.
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