on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:39:34PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > >> - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI > > > > Sure, instead it'll freeze at stage 1.5. Hardly an improvement. > > But how often does that happen? I've never seen it myself. I have. GRUB offers (advantage) the option to shuffle around partitions as they're visible to the OS. Very useful if, say, you're dealing with a multi-boot system and didn't (or couldn't) put some lame-ass piss-poor excuse of an OS like, say, a DOS-based legacy MS Windows variant, on the first partition of the first IDE disk. GRUB offers (disadvantage) the option to shuffle around partitions ....and for some reason this was getting returned to the partition table (working from memory here, possibly wrong on details) such that reality and tables no longer match. Great for shooting yourself in the foot. Somewhat less useful for booting systems. Result was a hang at the 1.5 bootloader stage. Other than that: yes, I prefer GRUB. Greater flexibility, greater control, greater recoverability. > >> - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config > >> file > > > > Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your > > kernels.. > > Since when? I don't symlink my kernel and I don't rerun grub every > time I upgrade my kernel, and yet it Just Works(tm). Your kernel install probably runs an 'update-grub', there's an apt config option for that. Note that update-grub does *NOT* 're-run grub' in the same way that it's necessary to re-run 'lilo' after editing /etc/lilo.conf. Rather, update-grub is editing /boot/grub/menu.lst. GRUB itself does *not* need to be updated, it finds and respects the modifications to its config file. [Deletia of correct and significant GRUB advantages]. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Hollings: bought, paid for, but couldn't deliver the CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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