Re: [tlug] grub vs lilo

[Andy Hunne <andy@example.com>]

Personally I think the best feature of grub is not needing to "re-install" it every time you change the configuration of you menu.lst file as you do with lilo.  Unfortunately I have to use lilo at the moment as I have not been able to configure grub to work correctly with my RAID array.  Hopefully one day I can figure it out and consign lilo into the ether where it belongs.

Regards,

Andy

On Thu, 21 February 2002, Matt Doughty wrote:

> 
> 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