Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are migrating
over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it overcomes the 1024
cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I went to onstall SuSE over
my mandrake partitions. Since it uses lilo and my boot partition was
outside the 1024 boundary I had so readjust some of my windows/data
partitions before I could install. And that isn't as easy to do in SuSE
as it is with mandrake using DiskDrake. I have since moved back to
mandrake for a lot of similar reasons.
Nev
Jim Anderson wrote:
>
> According to something I saw on the l-m site, GRUB is now the default
> bootloader for Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but LILO is optional in an Expert
> install.
>
> - jim
>
> On 11/24/00 12:03 PM, philomena spoke the words:
> >I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
> >try them out without having to remember to run lilo to effect your changes,
> >and to make the changes permanent you simply edit the menu file- again, as
> >soon as you save your changes, thats it - nothing else to execute. I have
> >heard that the newer lilo versions are more graphical and friendlier, but
> >I'm
> >sticking with grub. I don't think the differences bewteen lilo and grub are
> >not that great - more just a matter of slight preferences.
> >
> >philomena
> >
> >On Saturday 25 November 2000 12:03 am, you wrote:
> >> I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not
> >> familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead
> >> of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere?
> >> --doug
> >>
> >> At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote:
> >> >On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote:
> >> >>Ok, here today's question.
> >> >>
> >> >>I recently upgraded my winblows OS and it overrode my grub. I used the
> >> >>rescue disk and I can get into Linux now. It is however, using LILO to
> >> >> boot. How can I get it back to grub?
> >> >
> >> >Log in as root, go to /boot/grub, and run ./install.sh
> >> >Next boot you'll see grub again
> >> >
> >> >Paul
> >
