Hello.
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:23:26PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Just wondering if someone here uses GRUB and if so what are his motives and
> other options?
Yes, I'm using grub for a long time now.
I'm using a boot-floppy to boot into Linux (because my hdd is portable, but
isn't the primary device, so I cannot put a boot loader on it).
grub provides both the convinience and the safety I need.
I have placed two 'known good' kernels on the floppy itself, so if
something goes wrong I can always boot.
Whenever I compile or recompile a kernel, all I have to do is put it
somewhere (/kernels on the hdd, in my case), and edit a configuration file
on the floppy (it can even be on the hard-drive, but I decided against
this).
Even if I forget to edit the configuration file, nothing bad happens. I can
always tell it to boot using an explicit filename off the hdd on boot.
When I'm doing kernel development, I simply instruct grub to by default
boot directly off /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage, and I don't have
to run anything between kernel recompilations. It just works.
No need to worry about files changing their position on the hdd. No need to
worry about forgetting to run lilo and ending up with a system that wouldn't
quite boot. And a far neater user interface... <g>
grub should, in my humble opinion, be the default boot loader for
distributions like Redhat. It is far more user-friendly and far less
error-prone than lilo.
Note that I am only booting Linux, so I don't know how grub handles other
operating systems.
Nimrod
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