lilo/grub

Richard Hubbard hubbardr at adelphia.net
Mon Mar 22 06:37:51 EST 2004


Plus, it can boot to ntfs partitions, which can be forced in lilo, but 
it's real hard. (Although, for purists, this isn't an issue, but I have 
to teach Windows classes, so I need to dual boot...)

Cyber Source wrote:

> Grub is more flexible than Lilo. You can have spaces in the names, 
> change the configuration without reinstalling (which could be 
> important with a system with booting trouble), and is easier when it 
> comes to multi boot operating systems. We often do  dual boot systems, 
> sometimes triple boots and the way Grub handles the mapping of 
> multiple drives is simpler (read from files instead of one file having 
> to be reinstalled, etc).
>
> TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
>
>> Hi, y'all
>> So tell me whats the difference between Lilo and Grub?
>> In other words why is Grub better?
>>  
>> Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)
>>
>> */"Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>     Pete
>>     I did it and it workes. Thanks!
>>
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of Cyber Source
>>     Sent: Sat 3/20/2004 1:31 PM
>>     To: nflug at nflug.org
>>     Subject: Re: lilo/grub
>>
>>     GRUB Rocks!
>>     As root, type "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming you have and IDE hard
>>     drive and want to have the boot loader on the MBR of the first
>>     drive,
>>     that should do it. Then you can have a look at
>>     /boot/grub/grub.conf to
>>     see what's in there. Once installed, if you change something,
>>     it's just
>>     a matter of editing the conf file, no reinstall after, you can
>>     then just
>>     comment out what you don't want etc.
>>     hint, to select a different boot level or whatever at boot time, hit
>>     "e", then append the line of the boot with say, "single", then
>>     hit "b"
>>     to boot it.
>>
>>     Riga, Anthony wrote:
>>
>>     >I am running Redhat 9.0. using lilo.! How do I uninstall lilo
>>     and install grub in order to boot? Can this be done. I want to
>>     try grub for a change..
>>     >
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