Boot loaders

[Gregory J. Neumann]

I checked out the docs, and can't see any big advantage of grub over 
lilo, or the other way around.  Grub actually looks a little harder 
to configure for complex multiple os setups.  It could be that I've 
used lilo for so long that I'm too used to it, and hence a little 
prejudiced.  

I don't need to "chainload" Win9x w/ lilo, just edit lilo.conf to 
point to the correct partition.  Slackware install will ask you if 
you want to add any windows/dos os's it finds on the system to lilo 
and then set up very intelligent defaults for it.  Grub looks like it 
will be easier to set things up if you decide to install M$ stuff 
AFTER you do a Linux, but it still looks like a royal pain!  I like 
the idea of a "multiboot standard", but I suspect M$ would work very 
hard to NOT comply!  ;-)

-FWIW, my 2 cents.
Greg
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Blank" <jblank at didonato.cc>
> To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Boot loaders
> 
> 
> > Ron,
> >
> > FWIW here is my grub menu.list file:
> >
> > #
> > # GRUB boot menu
> > # by:jjb 11/20/01
> > #
> > # make the first entry the default OS
> > # and boot it after 30 seconds
> > default 0
> > timeout 30
> > # if the first OS won't Load fallback to the second
> > fallback 1
> >
> > # Windoze 2000 - The current default OS
> > title winDOZE 20o.
> > root (hd0,0)
> > makeactive
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > # Debian GNULinux - Kernel 2.2.19
> > title Debian GNULinux - kernel 2.2.19
> > root (hd1,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 root=/dev/hdb1
> > boot
> >
> > # Debian GNULinux - Kernel 2.4.12-smp
> > title Debian GNULinux - Kernel 2.4.12-smp
> > root (hd1,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.12-686-smp root=/dev/hdb1
> > initrd /boot/initrd
> > boot
> >
> > # End menu.lst
> >
> > Links: (Not hard to find w/google;)
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
> > http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/
> > On IBM DeveloperWorks: Getting to know Grub (You will have to sign
> > up for free...):
> >
> http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse
> -bytit le/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument > > These are
> the three main resources I used to get started.  I hope they help. > >
> Jeff > > > Thanks Ron:)
>