[inbox] RE: lilo/grub

[Greg Neumann]

Umm .... I've had nothing but trouble with grub and SCSI partitions. 
Maybe I'm too old and inflexible, but the configuration was very picky 
and arcane to my mind. I tried it w/ Mandrake and Gentoo and Slackware, 
and scrapped it as far too unfriendly and difficult to set up. Somehow, 
saving and exiting vim and typing "lilo -v" doesn't seem very hard at 
all. I have had XP pro booting as an option ... about 2 years ago ... 
from lilo, and I didn't have any troubles. I usually have 3 kernels, 
plus at least one Windows partition going at any given moment. I suspect 
it's alot like which word processor you like. The one you learned first 
and most thoroughly is always the best ... simply because!
BIG CAVEAT!! I've ONLY used grub on pure SCSI systems, never IDE. As 
grub seems more "slanted" to IDE, it may be completely different for that.
Just an old Slackware (since '94!) curmuddgeon's gripe. No flame war 
intended! ;-) If lilo failed me and grub worked, I'd change in a heartbeat!

-Greg

TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
> Hi, y'all
> So tell me whats the difference between Lilo and Grub?
> In other words why is Grub better?
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> Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)
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> "Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com> wrote:
> Pete
> I did it and it workes. Thanks! 
> 
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> -----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:
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>>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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