Quoting Edward Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) On my current Gentoo system I chose Grub as the boot loader, was that a > reasonable choice?
Sure, there's nothing wrong with GRUB. > Is there any reason to prefer LILO over Grub? 1) Although GRUB's second-stage bootloader's ability to read the semantics of the /boot filesystem can be seen as an advantage, from some perspectives the _requirement_ that it be able to read the /boot filesystem might be seen as a disadvantage. 1a) It means that /boot cannot be on Your Favourite Exotic Filesystem unless the ability to parse it happens to be built into the GRUB second-stage loader. 1b) It means that minor /boot filesystem damage might prevent booting, a situation where LILO's loader modules wouldn't notice because they don't use filesystem parsing. (Only the /sbin/lilo map installer does.) 2) You happen to already be familiar with LILO and so don't get traumatised by silly and easily avoided new-user pitfalls[1], and LILO isn't broken, so you keep using it. [1] See "Zen of LILO" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Kernel . -- Cheers, "A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line, today. The results Rick Moen blacked out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steel City News _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
