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Dale posted on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:32:29 -0600 as excerpted: |
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> I used lilo when I first started using Linux, Mandrake 9.1 days. When I |
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> started with Gentoo, I switched to grub. I can't even imagine being |
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> without grub. I know lilo has some strong points and is maintained but |
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> I still prefer grub. I also read that a new grub is in the pipe too. |
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> Supposed to be much better. That's the rumor anyway. |
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Grub is nice on local machines, due to the ability to use its interactive |
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shell. That can be quite useful when the config is screwed up for some |
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reason. On remote machines where the interactivity until booted is much |
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lower anyway, that doesn't matter so much (if at all) and lilo is as good, |
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possibly better. |
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As for grub2... yes, it's in the pipe... as it has been for /years/. |
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Unfortunately, they did the same thing kde did and pulled support for |
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their current stable version LONG before the new version was stable, |
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leaving users between a rock and a hard place. Fortunately, grub is far |
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smaller and less complex than all of kde, and distributions were able to |
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step in and pick up the slack (yeah, free software, try doing that with |
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servantware when the original company abandons it), continuing to both |
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keep it building with new toolchains, and add new features like support |
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for ext4, etc. |
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Unfortunately, last I knew, grub2 wasn't even officially on-disk-format- |
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stable yet, tho with ubuntu and etc already using it, it's getting more |
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difficult to change it, and they were /probably/ done with changes, but at |
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least last I knew, it wasn't official, yet. |
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FWIW, there's a (masked) grub-2 in the tree, that I've been thinking about |
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playing with at some point, but I've not gotten to it. When I eventually |
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do, I'll know quite a bit more about it, but grub1 (0.97-rX) has continued |
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to work fine for me, so no rush. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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