On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:40:46PM +0000, Simon Heaton wrote:
Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
- Keith Winston <kwinston@twmi.rr.com> [Jun 20. 2002 12:37]:
It's does quite some more. It supports filesystems, SCSI and can search for kernel images etc. etc. Really cool piece of software, I use it myself.
And you don't get stuck with a non-bootable computer if you screw up the configuration file. With lilo, you need to boot in rescue mode and fix that, with grub you edit it, boot right, and then fix it.
FWIW:
With grub it is soooo easy to configure new kernels compared to lilo, just edit a single file and thats it. Have been using Grub for past two years without problem.
Some of this is information is interesting. I can see an advantage if you can fix your grub config file without booting from a rescue disk. I didn't know it could do that. But I'm not sure I get the "supports filesystems and SCSI" part. What is the benefit over lilo? Don't you still need to worry about initrd images for the kernel? How is it easier to configure a new kernel with grub vs. lilo? Lilo also has a single file to edit, unless I am missing something again regarding initrd images. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Right behind you, I see the millions Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net