On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote:

> Exactly so.  Right now, this is more curiousity than anything.  The
> one place I could see some real advantage might be in a rescue disk -
> but I'm not sure.

Hey, curiosity is good. Rescue disk was the one place that I was thinking
of, but I didn't see it being big enough to actually use GRUB full time,
so I asked. =)

> I've another place I can use GRUB, and am evaluating that at the same
> time - a Compaq Server with an IDE CDROM and a SCSI hard drive (which
> it boots off of).  It's never worked without the floppy disk I made;
> maybe using GRUB instead of LILO will help....

Possible. GRUB is a bit more flexible about the things it will allow to
boot from if I remember correctly.

> Chances aren't that likely that GRUB is going to replace syslinux on
> Oxygen disks for a size constraint alone - but I'd like to learn more
> about GRUB.

Learning's good. I just downloaded the Red Hat ISOs so I could learn Red
Hat's idiosyncracies in preparation for active all-or-nothing job
searching. Things are starting to look grim...

--
George Metz
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"We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during
the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Brigadier
General Douglas Richardson, USAF, Commander - Space Warfare Center


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