Re: switching from lilo to grub
Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > PS: grub is definatelly a great bootloader, I think I'll never go back
> > to lilo.
>
> Same here, except on my machines with an XFS based root filesystem.
> Grub does not yet support XFS, so I had to resort to LILO. I looked in
> to writing XFS support for grub, but I am not familiar with filesystem
> coding to feel entirely comfortable.
Uhh, have you tried to load lilo from grub via chainloader? That sounds
like fun. :) Of course, you would need to run lilo anyway, whenever
you compile a new kernel, so one of grub's advantages -- recompiling
kernels without re-running grub -- would be lost. Too bad! But you
have the nicely colored boot menu for sure. :)
> One complaint I do have about grub is the license. Grub itself is
> GPLed, but it contains code ripped from incompatible (license-wise)
> source. That's not good, and I think somebody with experience in such
> matters really needs to examine it.
Hmm, this really sucks! Makes we wonder, I always thought that grub was
*the* *official* GNU bootloader.
Cheers
Viktor,
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Viktor Rosenfeld
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