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Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: >> - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI > > Sure, instead it'll freeze at stage 1.5. Hardly an improvement. But how often does that happen? I've never seen it myself. >> - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Since when? I don't symlink my kernel and I don't rerun grub every time I upgrade my kernel, and yet it Just Works(tm). >> - Grub understands file systems > > Which is unimportant for 99.9% of users. Not unless you need an interactive shell to boot because you goobered /boot/grub/menu.lst. >> - Grub has an interactive shell, so that if you do foul up the >> config file, you have a pretty decent chance of saving yourself and >> navigating to a bootable kernel. > > Which is unimportant for 99.9% of users. Not unless you've botched a kernel upgrade and need to go find your old, bootable kernel. >> The interactive shell can also let you fix boot paramters on the fly, if >> that's what you did wrong or if you just want to test them without >> editing the config file. When you find the right one(s), then edit the >> file to make them permanent. > > Which is unimportant for 99.9% of users. Not unless you need to pass a parm to the kernel that you forgot the first time, or need to boot to single mode. > For the clueless, there is no significant difference between lilo and grub. > The default was changed to grub to satisfy the 'leet, not the clueless. I'm not sure how you can say that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYLfmUzgNqloQMwcRAlckAKDY5c0LsUPSOxWH5IhzfMMB4EXZeQCgviNh UWWgYwVE+rJo5af46vf5MUc= =kLdA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
