On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:01 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:17, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, David Walser wrote: > > > > Does grub suffer the same disability? > > > > Most other distros use grub by default. Why don't we? > > > > > > > > Austin > > > > > > We did for one release, hopefully we never do again. It was a disaster > > > and a support nightmare. > > > > IIRC it was 7.1, back when grub could do >1024 cylinders, and LILO could > > not ... not only that, but it was the first release to ship with Reiser > > ... boy was I glad when I had the chance to upgrade a production machine > > from 7.1 to 8.0! > > > > Buchan > > Yep remember... I de-grubbed that box asap. BTW RH has grubb but when I > did a SuSE 8.1 install recently it was lilo...
I really prefer GrUB, it's much more flexible, and I don't have to remeber to rerun it every time I make a config change. What is the problem with it? -- Greg
