On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:24:02 +1000 Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> Also, why is the bootloader default changing from Lilo to Grub? > > > >> No idea. The developers liked it, its supposed to be the next thing > >> ... ;-) The only thing better I see about it is that you don't need > >> to reinstall it when you make changes to the entrees, other then > >> that it looks more complicated to me. > > > > Hopefully it's better at booting other OSes, such as XP. I'm > > planning to try it out for that reason. > > Having made the move quite some time ago, the biggest reason for using > grub for me is that it is *so* much easier to recover when things go > wrong. > > Day to day, neither is that much easier than the other to use, > frankly. > > When something breaks - you install a new kernel and typo the install, > or forget to run lilo, or whatever, it's very hard to recover. > Alternately, when your hardware decides to renumber your BIOS hard > disks because the only disk on one of the two controllers died on > you... > > The ability of grub to present a command shell where you can inspect > disks, load a kernel and boot without needing to dig out special boot > media. > > Being able to do that from a serial console was also very nice with > some remote hardware we had one time. Thanks for all this feedback. I'm definitely getting a feel for grub and liking it more and more. It's cool how dpkg rebuilds the menu.lst file when you install a new kernel built using kernel-package. It even adds a "SAFE" single-user mode boot entry for each kernel. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
