On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote: > > What are the benefits of using syslinux vs grub on a live system? > > first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot > on a small subset of crappy/old/strange/weird machines where isolinux is > able to boot. this might or might not be true for your use case. > But, syslinux run xen linux kernel? second, because it has greated flexibility (payloads available for iso, > hdd, pxe etc.), because it has more features (hdt, if64, etc.) and > because its menu system is far more advanced (simple menu, vesamenu, > gfxboot, etc.) > > and third, its codebase is much better and its upstream author much more > reactive. > > > I'd like to configure syslinux to give me a menu of kernel choices (like > > grub does on my non-live Lenny system). If anybody out there has a > > config file to share, I'd appreciate it. > > live-helper does by default configure syslinux for vesamenu. > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: [email protected] > Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------------- * * Héctor Alonso Lozada Echezuría * imatsu * L. C. 374500 * Debian unstable AMD64 * Blog: http://imatsu.blogspot.com * *---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
