On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:28:38PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:43:06AM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote: > > As the maintainer of LILO, I know that there is advantages on GRUB and advantages > > on LILO. Some users will need LILO advantages, some will need GRUB advantages. > > I'm not intending to make a flamewar of bootloaders. I just suggest not to have > > a "default" bootloader but to let the user to choose what is the one she needs. > > Sounds fine. If you look at the links I pasted (see below), you'll see that > this is what other distributions do. > > However, there's always a preferred option. Don't call it "default" if you > don't want to, but we need to decide which is the preferred option for Debian. For Debian means on all architectures.
> > Look at the screenshots or install instructions below to see what I mean: > > > > - Red Hat > > > (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-guimode-bootload.html) > > > - Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml) > > > - Mandrake > > > (http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/misc-params.html#drakxid-setupBootloader) > Have you URLs for none i386 distributions? > -- > Robert Millan Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
