On Sunday 22 May 2005 0007, somebody named Mike S inscribed this message: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > >>>>anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to > >>>>yaboot :) > >>> > >>>Given how crappy is grub is on i386 I'd avoid in on other platforms > >>> at any cost. > >> > >>What's wrong with it? > > > >Maybe he is refering to the possible inability to boot (even the other > >OSes) in case on /boot corruption. > > > >>>Especially as yaboot works really nicely from the users POV. > >> > >>It works, but the maintainer is not exactly responsive in fixing bugs, > >>even when supplied with tested patches. Given the "dead" state of > >>development, and upstream's bad attitude, I'll be glad to switch to > >>GRUB as soon as it's usable. [Maintaining a local fork just so I can > >>use udev is not my idea of fun.] > > > >Maybe is time for yaboot.org ;-) > > My only experience with grub on the pc was on my girlfriend's i586 > laptop, and I must admit that it was a really bad experience. I had > trouble finding the right flags for compiling it, and once I did, it > would work fine for maybe two start ups, but then it would rewrite the > ID #'s of the laptop partitions, recovering from this was not that much > of a problem, since I booted with a DOS floppy and rewrote the mbr with > fdisk, and then used loadlin to get bacck to linux, but I am unaware of > such a tool for the mac, all be it I am not the most experienced in PPC > linux, or linux in general for that matter, but an alternative would be > nice in that, I thought the goal of open source software, and linux, or > one of them, was that you were not "stuck" to using one peice of > software. > > --Mike S
Well for what it's worth, grub has worked great for me! ;^) I know absolutely nothing about using it on PPC (only have an oldworld server ATM), but the half-dozen+ widely varied x86 machines I've put grub on have never had problems. (And it's way nicer to use than LILO, IMHO.) NRH -- When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. - Rinzai, ninth century Zen master -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
