Wow: animated high resolution LILO, what about GRUB?

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StringCheesian · Post by **StringCheesian** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:54 pm

Does anyone know of anything like this for GRUB? I'm thinking of switching to LILO if Gentoo's LILO uses the same patches as SuSe's.

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:39 pm

sounds nice..... probably i'll switch to lilo, too.....

pilla · Post by **pilla** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:24 pm

I don't boot that much to make any difference. Anyway, lilo is much more difficult to mantain than grub.

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:56 pm

I use gentoo on my notebook, so i boot it some times a day........ so a nice bootup screen would be cool

myuser · Post by **myuser** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:16 pm

LILO has always been better in the looks department than GRUB. I was quite surprised most used Grub when I made the transition to Gentoo.

But yes, Grub is easier to maintain and is better at being a boot loader than LILO.

The odd thing is the Grub manual seems to offer quite a few eye candy features that just refuse to work.

pilla · Post by **pilla** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:22 pm

LL0rd wrote:I use gentoo on my notebook, so i boot it some times a day........ so a nice bootup screen would be cool

I don't reboot my notebook, just suspend it.

amne · Post by **amne** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:08 pm

I often suspend to disk, which means booting. I still use lilo without any eyecand though, as i really don't care.

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:25 pm

I also use suspend2disk, but when I start the notebook, first of all grub shows the typical blue gentoo bootup screen

klavrynd · Post by **klavrynd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:39 pm

i use a bootloader to boot into my os ...

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:43 pm

well...... but some have more then one OS on their System......

klavrynd · Post by **klavrynd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:52 pm

#sarcasm

i was meaning, who cares if lilo has a fany interface if it fscks you when you forget to /sbin/lilo

LL0rd · Post by **LL0rd** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:03 pm

who cares that porsche has lots of horse power if it drinks lot of gas......

i would prefer to drive a porsche.... same with grub/lilo. My system must be eye candy...

StringCheesian · Post by **StringCheesian** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:31 am

Update: no need to switch to LILO after all. There are similar patches for grub.

See this howto: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-355701.html