Why do we use grub?

Hannes Mayer fedora at ancientcoins.biz
Fri May 21 18:22:01 UTC 2004


Beartooth wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 13:47:26 -0400, Chris Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>If grub can not install to md0 why make it so that is your only option? 
>>I just did a clean install of FC1 on reboot there is no mbr.
> 
> 
> Fwiw, as a total sub-technoid I've been using grub for two or three RH
> releases now, and like it fine. But this does seem the most general fedora
> list. So would someone who knows give us a thumbnail rundown on why grub
> was preferred, or lilo was deprecated, or both? 

I don't know it, but I like GRUB more because it reads the config file
directly and you don't have to write the MBR everytime you change something.
IHMO that is an excellent reason :-)

Cheers,
Hannes.





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