2009/11/7 Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>: > 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.
If grub does not boot on your machine then you probably should report it as a bug. > > 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.) Grub has currently a text menu and a graphical menu which looks pretty much as the text menu, except in higher resolution and wit h a background image. It can boot from hdd and CD using both the real mode BIOS interface and EFI, and it should support PXE as well but I haven't tried that. I have no idea what is htd or if64. > > and third, its codebase is much better and its upstream author much more > reactive. If you mean grub legacy (something like 0.97 currently) there is no upstream for that. However, grub2 (currently something like 1.97 in debian) is actively developed. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
