Re: woody Debian Installer plans
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Grub is a much nicer bootloader than lilo; I switched to it to try the Hurd,
> but it's so much nicer (in fact) that I no longer install lilo on any system
> where I can replace it with Grub. Maybe lilo should be kept around for weird
> hardware that Grub doesn't support (is there any such hardware?), but Grub
> is really very superior in terms of interface and capabilities -- especially
> because it does filesystem lookups to find the OS kernel, so installing a
> new kernel (or moving your old one on the disk) doesn't cause your system to
> become unbootable if you forget to run LILO. And if you do somehow mess up your
> system, you can use the Grub command line to fix your problem. Being able to
> type:
It it possible to make it to an boot/install/rescue disk?
I think I read something on debian-hurd, that hurd had to be installed
through an linux-installer, as you need grub to start hurd and grub beeing
to large.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
BTW: I have to say that I do not like large bootladers at all. Perhaps I
wrote to many mini-op-systems that fit within the 512Byte of an
Bootsektor, but for me a bootloader has to load the operating system and
be quiet.
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