Thank you for the comments. I guess since I've only used Caldera till now that's why I thought LILO was being phased out.
Info pages - yuck! I didn't realize GRUB was a GNU thing - I thought it was an evolution of LILO - the next step as it were. I'm like you on the info pages. As far as I am concerned they are the most useless things on the face of this earth. I've tried to use them but navigating is lousy and I have never found what I need in them. Give me man pages! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 21:40:30 -0500 > begin "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > >> As a result of another thread I have a question on LILO and GRUB. I was >> >> under the impression that GRUB was to replace LILO for various reasons >> (supposedly better in some way - handles booting over 1024 cylinders, >> etc.) but a lot of people are sticking with LILO. Is LILO being phased >> out? What are the pros and cons of each? > > LILO: handles 1024+ cylinders just fine and is being upgraded regularly > by the lilo folks (only being phased out by Caldera AFAICT). supports any > OS. you can boot into a different image temporarily ( -R option). for me, > the best for remote administration, since it tells you if it can find the > image (i.e., did I do something stupid like fat-finger a key -- I'm good > at that); disadvantages is that you have to remember to run lilo when you > install a new kernel image (never been a problem for me, just automatic > anymore). should write it to the MBR or you could have trouble one day. > > GRUB: well, after my run-in w/ the GNU GRUB folks over their lack of > anything except info pages as documentation (we don't write man pages, > this is GNU/Linux), I refuse to look at this crap (or hear about their > propaganda). Besides, if I fat-finger a key, I only find out after I > reboot, and if the box is 5,000 miles away, I have a long trip to make to > fix it. > > Ciao, > > David A. Bandel > - -- > Focus on the dream, not the competition. > -- Nemesis Racing Team motto > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9xJVI3uVcotqGMQcRAo0OAKCm5HsKxJzMNToo16HkKxKvqo1ZZwCfSzAA > LUqjJM6bvBYW+bBlpHOgKKI= > =Ki7+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
