Re: Default bootloader
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:43:06AM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote:
> As the maintainer of LILO, I know that there is advantages on GRUB and advantages
> on LILO. Some users will need LILO advantages, some will need GRUB advantages.
> I'm not intending to make a flamewar of bootloaders. I just suggest not to have
> a "default" bootloader but to let the user to choose what is the one she needs.
Sounds fine. If you look at the links I pasted (see below), you'll see that
this is what other distributions do.
However, there's always a preferred option. Don't call it "default" if you
don't want to, but we need to decide which is the preferred option for Debian.
Look at the screenshots or install instructions below to see what I mean:
> > - Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-guimode-bootload.html)
> > - Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml)
> > - Mandrake (http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/misc-params.html#drakxid-setupBootloader)
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