Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Matt Stamm" <mattsl@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive.
I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default
install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error
on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the
bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and
resulted in a successfull install.

I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the
default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux
community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful
bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other
OS on this PC other than SUSE.

Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB?

What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ?

Any advise or comment would be appreciated.

Matt