Re: grub/lilo question
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:20:05 -0700,
Carla Schroder <carla@bratgrrl.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] 200309171620.05603.carla@bratgrrl.com>:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 1:46 pm, Victory wrote:
> > Some one please let me know the advantage/disadvantage
> > about grub/lilo ext2/ext3.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Victor.
>
> 1. GRUB contains its own little command shell, for passing in or
> editing commands at boot time. It can read from a configuration file.
> It supports many filesystems, currently BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32,
> Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, and VSTa fs; and blocklists for
> files that do not appear in filesystems, such as chainloaders.
>
> GRUB reads filesystems and kernel executables, rather than inflexibly
> restricting the user to disk geometry. Install and remove operating
> systems as needed. Boot bare kernels, passing in modules and
> parameters from the command line. GRUB will even download OS images
> over the network.
>
> GRUB does not need a /boot partition, just let it own the MBR.
..is Grub far from being able to boot off a cd now?
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