Feizhou wrote:
I completely disagree with you here since I use grub over pxe to install/boot my servers and avoid any local bootloading problems.
From: Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org
In one sentence, grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and lilo ROCKS...
At the risk of offending even more people by suggesting a "middle ground" where _each_ might actually be applicable more than the other (gasp! not again!):
- GRUB is an intelligent boot-loader that is more "dynamic" because it inspects the disk at boot-time, but that requires it have drivers for the disk label (partition table format), slices (filesystems), etc... as appropriate, including introducing geometry issues if GRUB is booting multiple installs, OSes, etc... if the other installs don't agree with GRUB on geometry.
- LILO is a dumb, "boot this sector offset" boot-loader, but that means it really doesn't care much for the underlying disk label, slices, geometry, etc... other than some basic disk label editing/modification capabilities (although that does introduce some disk label, slice, geometry, etc... considerations if they are used).
Each has own strengths and weaknesses, and should be used accordingly.
(BS ducks and awaits his fate in the fallout ;-)
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org
Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
Feizhou wrote:
I completely disagree with you here since I use grub over pxe to install/boot my servers and avoid any local bootloading problems.
From: Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org
In one sentence, grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and lilo ROCKS...
At the risk of offending even more people by suggesting a "middle ground" where _each_ might actually be applicable more than the other (gasp! not again!):
There is no middle ground on this one...they are not comparable.
- GRUB is an intelligent boot-loader that is more "dynamic" because it
inspects the disk at boot-time, but that requires it have drivers for the disk label (partition table format), slices (filesystems), etc... as appropriate, including introducing geometry issues if GRUB is booting multiple installs, OSes, etc... if the other installs don't agree with GRUB on geometry.
This hardly does justice to the power and flexibility that grub gives you. Now that FC4 Anaconda does root on mirror install right, the last likely to be widely encountered problem with using grub on RH/FC will be toast. If you ask me, this one is the only problem people have with grub sans those who can't be bothered to learn grub properly.
- LILO is a dumb, "boot this sector offset" boot-loader, but that means
it really doesn't care much for the underlying disk label, slices, geometry, etc... other than some basic disk label editing/modification capabilities (although that does introduce some disk label, slice, geometry, etc... considerations if they are used).
don't forget install time configuration only.
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Feizhou