On Friday 24 November 2000 21:16, you wrote:
> 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
Newer versions of lilo (don't know the number sorry) don't have the
1024th cylinder limitation.
--
Eddie Torress
www.veloct.net
