Re: [tlug] grub vs lilo

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:49:47PM +0900, YAMAGATA Hiroo wrote:
> I got myself a 30GB hard disk and was having a lot of trouble getting
> win2000 and linux on it together using lilo. lilo always fumbles finding
> the /boot partition that I made below the 2GB border.
> 
> And then I used grub, and wow, it works like a charm. So my question is,
> what's the advantage of using lilo? Are there any know weakness of grub?
> I'm curious.
> -- 

It came about later than lilo? Other than comming on the scene later there
isn't really a good reason to use lilo over grub. Grub has a better feature
set, and is all around the more elegant solution. (now I'm sure someone
will come up with a corner case to prove me wrong).

--Matt