Re: GRUB vs LILO
OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du lundi 05 août 2002, vers
14:54, Romuald DELAVERGNE <delavergne@availix.fr> disait:
>> I tried GRUB tonight for the first time. I'm not sure that I see any
>> great value of it over LILO. However, if that's going to be the wave
>> of the future, I might as well get started with it. So, my question:
>> Are there plans for Debian to adopt GRUB as the preferred boot
>> loader in the future?
>>
> I think GRUB is better.
> Its only disadvantage compared to lilo, it is that it is filesystem
> dependant.
It can use the same operation mode as LILO : you can enter offsets
where the kernel reside instead of just a filename :
<url:http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Block-list-syntax.html#Block%20list%20syntax>
Well, this is not very natural. :)
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