Re: Linux wannabe
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:40PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
> I tried LILO myself, and on my machine with my BIOS it didn't
> work. When asked to add linux to a win2k box at work I tried lilo
> first. I couldn't get a lilo floppy to dual-boot the system.
> LILO would also have had trouble on the MBR since the kernal was
> above the 1024 cylinder mark.
I like grub too. But it's nor fair to compare an older version of
lilo to a newcomer grub. FYI, recent lilo versions do NOT have the
1024 cylinder limit.
> One of the best things about grub is that you can configure it
> when you boot. It gives a nice menu and command-line interface.
> Also it chainloads winows without any effort at all (unlike LILO).
Lilo also gives you the same menu as grub. I have Mandrake 7.2 on my
laptop, and lilo installed automatically with the same menu system
as grub would do...
> I now have grub on my MBR and won't go back to use lilo.
The only real advantage of grub over lilo, is that if you modify the
grub menu config file, you do not have to reinstall grub on the MBR
while lilo needs to be rerun.
-- Viktor
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