isolinux vs. grub for desktop cd?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Martin Man skrev:

> Where can I find some pointers wrt/ why isolinux is used as the 
> bootloader of choice for dapper desktop cd? Although some might argue it 
> gives you the right eye-candy, I believe it's substantialy less capable 
> than grub.

It might be less capable, but it works on way more systems.  Warty used 
grub and it didn't boot on lots of machines.

> I did try several times to boot dapper desktop cd in order to rescue 
> some of my systems, but I was never able to figure out how to do these 
> things with isolinux.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here?


> whereas, if I remember correctly, breezy used to have grub?

warty did, breezy and hoary didn't.

- tfheen