[olug] of Grub and Lilo

[Nate Rotschafer]

GRUB uses HD symbolism also so you can specify the first, second or third HD
etc no matter what controller it is on...then the graphical boot....and
various config file options that are useful to power users.  Not to mention
grub's config file is sooo much easier....

Nate

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan" <rps at willconsult.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] of Grub and Lilo


>
> > >>> jeffh at delasco.com 12/12/2002 >>>
> >Can anyone tell me why one would use Grub instead of Lilo?
> > From what I can see, lilo is better documented and better understood.
> >Outside of Grubs graphical bootup, is it better than lilo at anything
> >else?
>
>
> It can do some stuff that grub couldn't (at the time at least).
>
> For example I've had trouble making Linux my main OS and installing
Windows
> to a second or third partition.  When you install windows it doesn't give
> you a choice of where to install it to.  Grub can do some switching (I
> think you use swap(a,b) in the conf file) so Windows thinks its installing
> to the main partition when really its not.
>
> -Ryan
>
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