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eleKtron
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: grub vs lilo! |
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I'm personally a lilo fan. grub is just a pain to me.... lilo is so easy to set up and it gets the job done quite nicely....
I'm just curious about everyone elses thoughts on this... |
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Senso
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Location: Montreal, Quebec
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Even if grub is usually recommended, I've never had any problem with lilo. I've OpenBSD & Gentoo partitions, plus one or two test kernels and it's all well. Why change when it ain't broke? |
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charlieg
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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I use grub.
However, I wish it supported the pingus theme that Lilo does...
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Lovechild
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Location: Århus, Denmark
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| GRUB is all that's allowed on my MBR. |
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scriptkiddie
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Joined: 30 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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I like grub because you can make it extremely nice looking.. but it never finds all my hard drives.
I use LILO on all my PC's now  |
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idl
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Location: Nottingham, UK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I prefer grub, because with lilo I always forget to run lilo before I reboot to my new kernel... and I change kernels often 
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Senso
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Location: Montreal, Quebec
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| port001 wrote: | | I prefer grub, because will lilo I always forget to run lilo before I reboot to my new kernel... and I change kernels often |
Ooooh so true, that happened to me a lot. I didn't know grub didn't need that, though. |
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idl
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Senso wrote: | | port001 wrote: | | I prefer grub, because will lilo I always forget to run lilo before I reboot to my new kernel... and I change kernels often |
Ooooh so true, that happened to me a lot. I didn't know grub didn't need that, though. |
lilo writes its config to the MBR, grub writes its config location to the MBR. Grub works out from the config what kernel to boot, and configures itself accordingly. |
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Senso
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| port001 wrote: |
lilo writes its config to the MBR, grub writes its config location to the MBR. Grub works out from the config what kernel to boot, and configures itself accordingly. |
So basically, since grub doesn't write itself to the MBR, does that means Windows doesn't try to rewrite the MBR, like it did with lilo when I was dual-booting, years ago? |
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idl
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Senso wrote: | | port001 wrote: |
lilo writes its config to the MBR, grub writes its config location to the MBR. Grub works out from the config what kernel to boot, and configures itself accordingly. |
So basically, since grub doesn't write itself to the MBR, does that means Windows doesn't try to rewrite the MBR, like it did with lilo when I was dual-booting, years ago? |
Grub does write to the MBR, it just doesn't write its config to the MBR. It reads your grub.conf when the boot selection apears. |
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Unne
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm biased against lilo because of experiences a couple years ago with 1024th cyllander limits.  Even though lilo is better now, grub is fine for me. |
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geekX
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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I use lilo, because it is easy to set up. Actually - I know how to set it up, so I haven't even bothered to try grub. I only see my boot loader when things don't work and once in a blue moon anyway.
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aLEczapKA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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grub is also easy to set up - it only seems so hard at the first time...
but the main reason I use grub: it allows me to hide linux disks from winblowz - I have dual boot - first disk is linux, second winblowz. So windows thinks it's the first drive available (C:\) and it doesn't mess with my linux disks/partitions as it happend when I used lilo.
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amne
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| singleboot system (gentoo only, so i don't care where the bootloader is installed, no windows to mess it up), already had a lilo.conf for years from my old suse install, didn't understand grubs config file immedeately - so i stayed with lilo. |
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masseya
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Please follow up to Which bootloader?
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