Bootloader

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Fri Sep 30 09:21:08 CDT 2005


I still don't know what's so great about grub.  I noticed it was the 
default in ubuntu so I spent probably 10 mins trying to figure out how 
to use it when I was installing my system, gave up, and just used lilo 
instead.

What are the technical reasons that grub is better than lilo?

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just read a posting on LKML about SATA disk detection order
> and bootloaders. There is a bootloader named "Gujin" - website
> is at http://gujin.org.
> 
> Have a look, read a bit about it and ponder whether Grub is the
> best choice for a bootloader. Ubuntu is about ease of use, and
> from what I can see, Gujin is it.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 




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