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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:44:34 +0000 Neil Stone wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > No! Its not a cartoon! > > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/01/22/lilo-and-grub-boot-loaders-made-simple.html > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > > > Well spotted, however "For the novice, start with LILO and then > migrate to GRUB." why bother...?? > > GRUB is the default on every modern distribution, and like the page > says, better in loads of ways.. > Why bother? Because LILO uses Linux's own harddrive/partition naming/numbering scheme so you don't need to learn two sets of things just to get the damn thing to boot. Take for example this, bearing in mind the "for the novice" statement: My USB harddrive that has Ubuntu on it. When I installed Ubuntu it was detected as /dev/sdc and everytime I boot it (on this machine) it keeps being detected as /dev/sdc. Ubuntu is installed on the first partition, /de/sdc1. This I can cope with. This is the third SCSI block device and the first partition on it. So why does GRUB's boot menu say that Ubuntu (on the USB harddrive) is installed on (hd0,0)? I happen to agree that GRUB is a far better bootloader than LILO, if only for the fact that you can fire up a LiveCD Linux distro, mount the partition that contains the /boot bit, edit the menu.lst and reboot to see the changes take effect... no need to chroot and fart around. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html