My 2 bits (having used all 3, lilo, grub legacy and grub2) - Grub legacy is even easier to use than lilo, changes to menu.lst appear at next boot (no need to run anything, just reboot), and the menu.lst format is concise, everything you normally need to change is in menu.lst (default boot title etc.). Grub2 is more automatic; you can control everything but control is less direct. For example to set the default system to boot, you edit /etc/default/grub (IIRC), then rerun the grub-config utility (or of course use Yast). You can use Yast to change from Grub2 to Grub Legacy or vice versa even after installation, so you can try them both and see which you prefer (I use Grub Legacy on the small server I administer, and Grub2 on my desktop. The server is running OpenSuSE 13.1 on main and backup disks, while the desktop is multiboot, 3 Linux distros including 13.1 plus Windows 8.1.) Final point - you may find it useful to download and burn the SuperGrub CDs - there are Grub Legacy and Grub2 variants, and they give you a way to boot just about anything in the case that you do somehow muck up grub configuration. On 21 June 2014 22:29, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2014-06-21 13:13 (GMT-0700) Tony Alfrey composed:
If the Windows drive will boot independently all by itself w/o any help from grub, why would grub need to /add/ anything to the Windows drive to boot it. Let me just add that this is the first time I've ever used grub. I've used LILO forever. All one does is map the drive numbers correctly in lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo and you are done. Windows boots. IMHO, LILO is the simplest thing since sliced bread.
Linda likes Lilo, but I think very few if any of the rest of us here do. I find Grub Legacy the easiest of Linux loaders to use and understand, in part for this one important reason:
If I screw up the config (menu.lst) file so that I can't boot from any existing stanza, I (anyone) can quickly edit on the fly any of those presented in the menu, or drop all the way to a grub> prompt, in order to get booted without hunting down and booting rescue media. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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