Re: Woody unofficial CDROMs and booting with Grub

[Michele Dalla Silvestra <dalla@keycomm.it>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:57:42AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:00:15PM +0200, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote:
> 
> > Is possible to move Grub from the 2nd CD to the 1st? And to use it in the
> > installation instead of LILO?
> 
> moving it to CD 1 is not enough, it would have to be in the base
> system.  probably too late for that.
>
> Adam already decided no grub for woody boot-floppies, they shall use
> lilo. 
> 
> lilo gets the job done, there is little if any compelling reason to go
> about changing it this late in the game. and take my word for it, even
> small changes in boot-floppies can and often do create headaches and
> troubles.  

Ok. Never mind, I hope for the next major release after woody...

Tecnically, Grub offer more funcionality comparing to Lilo, and the best
distributions (Debian) need the best boot loader (Grub) ;-)


ciao

Michele