On Tuesday December 9 at 06:42pm Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:09:48AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: > > I use Grub as a bootloader. After making a kernel .deb using > > make-kpkg, I'm running dpkg -i.... Near the end you are asked to if > > you want to make a boot block. What is this? Is it just an entry > > in Grub or LILO? What I'm most concerned about is being able to > > boot to my old kernel if I screwed this one up. > > Since LILO is so much better documented, easy to configure, far more > widely used, is generally the "assumed" bootloader, and just works, > why not just use LILO? I've had some annoying problems with lilo not liking my hard drives, and weird booting problems that I can't really trace back to any definitive source. So I switched to grub, and I'm pretty happy with it. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Mountain Goats - Going to Cleveland : Bitter Melon Farm Today is Pungenday, the 51st day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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