vote for Lilo

[Mark Mielke]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:02:33PM -0400, Mark Hoover wrote:
> From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org>
> >What features are you missing from LILO that you can't have with GRUB?
> >I have used both LILO and GRUB and I think GRUB is far more powerful
> >than LILO. If I screw up my system, I can reconfigure nearly anything
> >from withing GRUB itself. However, on LILO, you are required to re-run
> >LILO every time you change kernels, for example.
> Personally, I really liked that "feature".  It kept me from doing many a
> stupid thing and rebooting the box only to find that the box didn't come
> back up due to an error that lilo caught and gave me the opportunity to
> fix before rebooting.  Really nice when you're admining a server across
> town or even in another state.
> As of yet I haven't seen anything in the docs like this with grub. 
> Granted, I haven't spent a real long time looking for it either.

LILO doesn't guarantee that a boot will work. It only guarantees that
the config file references valid image files. Perhaps you are simply
more meticulous about what you type (in which case, I'm not sure why
you are worried about the contents of the config file), but if you have
ever forgotten to run LILO after replacing the kernel image, you are
screwed. If the machine goes down before you run LILO, you are screwed.
It never happens?

I've had it happen to me several times.

But then, perhaps you are just better at remembering to type lilo than me.

mark

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