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Re: Debian Rescue Floppy



On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:24:28AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> Not to trigger a flamefest or anything, but why on earth are people
> still using LILO?  This is not the dark ages anymore.  GRUB is much
> easier to use, and if you set it up to use symlinks (similar to LILO)
> you never have to reinstall it to the MBR when you change kernels
> (since it can just read for filesystem to get the new kernel).

I do that on my older computer. On my newer one I use LILO because
GRUB will only boot the PC if I boot from a floppy. If I install grub
on any of the hard drives, the boot always hangs. I get a black screen
with the word "GRUB" followed by three non-alphabetic characters.

-- 
Jerome

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