Changing the Bootloader from GRUB to LILO
Dan
grinnz at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 17:19:42 UTC 2006
Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:36 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
>
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me how to change your boot loader from GRUB to LILO?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Good lord, why? Grub is FAR more capable than LILO
>>>
>> It's also a bit more complex to configure than Lilo. I know that I
>> personally prefer Lilo, where you can simply and easily edit its single
>> configuration file by hand, using the familiar /dev/hda1 syntax to
>> denote partitions. I've never run into anything Lilo can't handle, so
>> why work with complexity if you don't have to?
>>
>> *shrugs* Ah well. I can see this guy's point, but I also know that
>> there are no Lilo packages for FC5, hence removing Lilo's simplicity
>> advantage.
>>
>> Clint Olson
>>
>>
>
> I agree, I also have preferred lilo. I don't know why someone would
> make the move wholesale to Grub with such a massive gorilla as a RAID1
> bug in the room, doesn't make sense to me. Lilo has always performed
> well with RAID0 and RAID1 combos and I've never been able to get grub to
> install correctly in those scenarios.
>
> I'm getting ready to find out wether FC5's grub will handle /boot RAID1
> and RAID0 on the remainder of the partitions. FC3 did not perform in
> that regard. I'm going to be mightily peeved if FC5 grub does not
> function via RAID.
>
> LX
>
Well, for one, grub can easily handle fakeraid 0 and 1 in FC5. :)
-Dan
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