Re: LILO

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Daniel Stone 

| Tradition, and the fact lilo will boot over software RAID, SCSI drives with
| no BIOS, etc? (OTOH, GRUB *does* netboot and multiboot). The reason is this:
| 	* GRUB provides few drivers
| 	* GRUB reads the config file and the kernel off the partition, at
| 	  boot time
| So, if GRUB doesn't have a driver for <foo> BIOS-less SCSI card (and it
| won't), you won't be able to boot off it.

Well, how would you boot a BIOS-less SCSI card with LILO?  The BIOS
doesn't see the drive, so it won't try to boot from it.

| PS, the documentation (or lack thereof) for GRUB was absolutely awful when I
| last checked, has it gotten any better?

It's not too bad now, imho.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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