Boot Disk / Booting without GRUB
Rune Maagensen
maillist at maagensen.com
Sun Dec 12 11:16:26 UTC 2004
Andrew wrote:
> How would you boot Ubuntu without using GRUB on a system with Slackware,
> Windows and Ubuntu? In Slackware you can put in the first CD and load
> the bare.i kernel etc. How would you go about this in Ubuntu?
>
Well I think you need some kind of bootloader no matter what, and
besides using/learning grub really makes your day if you experience a crash.
You could use Lilo or Windows XP boot.ini, but in my experience GRUB is
far superior to both. Grub will be almost invisible if you set the timer
to 0.
/Rune
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