Re: Grub vs LILO
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:37:10PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
| "Tom Schuetz" <ts22548@mail.cybernetisp.net> writes:
| >
| > Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager?
|
| I've always used loadlin, so I don't know much about lilo. Grub
| is easy to configure and install, and has the capability to make a
| partition bootable (active in MS terms), hide/unhide partitions, and
| map drives to other drives. This is very helpful if you want to boot
| two different that OSes allow only one active partition and insist on
| being on the first disk. I have DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 and WIIN95 on
| /dev/hdb1, and can boot either. I don't think lilo permits that.
|
Oh, cool. Do you know if grub can boot off /dev/hdc2 if LILO can't?
(LILO can't because my BIOS is cheap, thus I use loadlin even though I
[almost] never boot Windo~1 anymore)
-D
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