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Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?



On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:32:16AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:29:26AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I prefer to avoid all such risks by having a small DOS partition and
> > booting from that with loadlin.exe. 
> 
> I used to do this, and still have some machines set up that way. Since
> I discovered grub I don't bother any more. Any parameter tweaking or
> selection of a different kernel can be done just as easily from grub
> as in DOS, and there is the additional advantage that grub understands
> filesystems other than FAT.
> 
I prefer the luxury of a FAT free system. 

"If there is something that can only be done in Windoze, it must not be
worth doing."

My $0.02 worth.

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net



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