lilo/grub
Richard Hubbard
hubbardr at adelphia.net
Mon Mar 22 06:37:51 EST 2004
Plus, it can boot to ntfs partitions, which can be forced in lilo, but
it's real hard. (Although, for purists, this isn't an issue, but I have
to teach Windows classes, so I need to dual boot...)
Cyber Source wrote:
> Grub is more flexible than Lilo. You can have spaces in the names,
> change the configuration without reinstalling (which could be
> important with a system with booting trouble), and is easier when it
> comes to multi boot operating systems. We often do dual boot systems,
> sometimes triple boots and the way Grub handles the mapping of
> multiple drives is simpler (read from files instead of one file having
> to be reinstalled, etc).
>
> TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
>
>> Hi, y'all
>> So tell me whats the difference between Lilo and Grub?
>> In other words why is Grub better?
>>
>> Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)
>>
>> */"Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com>/* wrote:
>>
>> Pete
>> I did it and it workes. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of Cyber Source
>> Sent: Sat 3/20/2004 1:31 PM
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: Re: lilo/grub
>>
>> GRUB Rocks!
>> As root, type "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming you have and IDE hard
>> drive and want to have the boot loader on the MBR of the first
>> drive,
>> that should do it. Then you can have a look at
>> /boot/grub/grub.conf to
>> see what's in there. Once installed, if you change something,
>> it's just
>> a matter of editing the conf file, no reinstall after, you can
>> then just
>> comment out what you don't want etc.
>> hint, to select a different boot level or whatever at boot time, hit
>> "e", then append the line of the boot with say, "single", then
>> hit "b"
>> to boot it.
>>
>> Riga, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> >I am running Redhat 9.0. using lilo.! How do I uninstall lilo
>> and install grub in order to boot? Can this be done. I want to
>> try grub for a change..
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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