Re: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

2004-08-04 Thread John Summerfield
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Peter Green] or just default to lilo altogether unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc There are major advantages with grub. It understand several file systems (no need to update the boot block if the kernel or initrd is updated), and it contains

Re: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

2004-08-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Peter Green] > or just default to lilo altogether > unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc There are major advantages with grub. It understand several file systems (no need to update the boot block if the kernel or initrd is updated), and it contains a simple editor (so one can f

RE: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

2004-08-04 Thread peter green
or just default to lilo altogether unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc > -Original Message- > From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 August 2004 22:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+ >

Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

2004-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, grub still has problems booting on high end systems (4GB ram or more). With ram getting cheaper and more used by the minute this could affect more and more Debian installations. (see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254798) Given the timeframe for the release it doesn't look