Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Paul Johnson wrote:

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> Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> writes:
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> > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
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> > > - With grub,  the boot process will never freeze at LI
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> > Sure, instead it'll freeze at stage 1.5.  Hardly an improvement.
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> But how often does that happen?  I've never seen it myself.
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I have, unfortunately.  I have a machine that just doesn't wanna work 
from a hard drive boot - but it works fine from CD or floppy.  Both LILO 
and Grub fail.

> > > - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file
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> > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels..
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> Since when?  I don't symlink my kernel and I don't rerun grub every
> time I upgrade my kernel, and yet it Just Works(tm).
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I don't understand that - unless your different kernel versions are all 
using the same filename.

Daniel