According to something I saw on the l-m site, GRUB is now the default
bootloader for Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but LILO is optional in an Expert
install.
- jim
On 11/24/00 12:03 PM, philomena spoke the words:
>I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
>try them out without having to remember to run lilo to effect your changes,
>and to make the changes permanent you simply edit the menu file- again, as
>soon as you save your changes, thats it - nothing else to execute. I have
>heard that the newer lilo versions are more graphical and friendlier, but
>I'm
>sticking with grub. I don't think the differences bewteen lilo and grub are
>not that great - more just a matter of slight preferences.
>
>philomena
>
>On Saturday 25 November 2000 12:03 am, you wrote:
>> I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not
>> familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead
>> of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere?
>> --doug
>>
>> At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote:
>> >On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote:
>> >>Ok, here today's question.
>> >>
>> >>I recently upgraded my winblows OS and it overrode my grub. I used the
>> >>rescue disk and I can get into Linux now. It is however, using LILO to
>> >> boot. How can I get it back to grub?
>> >
>> >Log in as root, go to /boot/grub, and run ./install.sh
>> >Next boot you'll see grub again
>> >
>> >Paul
>
