Re: dual boot with lilo
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Mike M wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for posting your instructions.
>
> Now I know where to look for them.
>
> The mkisofs is a thing of wonder. The man page is huge and
> full of mystical concepts. I am not qualified to expound on
> its use. Nevertheless, I feel I should more fully qualify
> that I put the .iso into a new directory and cd'd to the dir
> before running mkisofs.
>
> > BTW, I think that the new debian-installer (for sid/unstable)
> > comes with grub as default - which might make new SID install CDs
> > particularly valuable as a rescue CD. Here's hopin.
>
> That answers a question that was brewing in my head, "Why
> does Woody still use lilo when grub is the gnu way of the
> future?" I presume the answer to be, "Woody is stable and
> grub is not stable." The gnu grub site indicates this clearly
> by stating the grub (known as legacy grub) is deprecated, and
> grub2 is available from CVS only. That's a pretty good
> description of "not stable" IMO. grub2 would not complete
> the configure operation on a Woody workstation because of
> a library that was missing or outdated (LZO IIRC).
Also remember that Woody was originally released back in August 2002
(I believe), and frozen for quite a while before that. At that time,
Lilo was still generally considered to be the primary boot loader for
Linux. But once Debian makes a release, the only updates are for
security fixes, so the Woody boot loader wasn't going to change, even
though Grub has become increasingly popular since then.
<snip>
Tom
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