Linux

I can customize grub a little more than LILO, but that doesn't mean LILO isn't customizable.

I also tend to like grub because it seems to be kept up with a little more than LILO now....

I think what it really boils down to in preference. It depends on what you need and want.

Check out: http://www.frozentech.com/?p=5
http://freeos.com/articles/3482/

you're just grubby!!



take a shower once in a while. :)

my biggest complaint with grubs interface is that it's a huge batle to get a text only boot menu.
lilo it's simple to get text only.
I like my runlevel 3.
i like having the data for what's happening during the boot scroll by, not hidden. that way I know that everything has loaded right.
( not like ms world where it's mushroom treatment* as company policy. )
and manual start of a gui if it's wanted for the session.

though I agree, grub is now better supported than lilo, and is definately more commonly used as the default by distro's.


* mushroom treatment = keep you in the dark and feed you bullsh|t.

Single user mode all the way baby! ;-)

And do I smell THAT bad that it is creeping through the ethernet!?? Dear god, I must bath more often or I'll smell French *zing!*

You can have grub scroll the data as well and you can still use interactive mode. Are you talking about the wonky Fedora boot screen deally?

You have defined my being! I am a mushroom!

not fedora, it was actually a mandrake release, grub only had graphic interface options.
( they default to graphic with lilo as well but allow for text interface with lilo )
I refuse to use red hat's products, since 14 installs to get mountable root partition, then it went and defaulted to runlevel 5 when told to use 3.
won't install red hat's products on my machines at all.

I hate how Red Hat does that. I set it to Run Level 3 on install and it still goes to 5. You have to do it post first boot and THEN it will work!

14 installs to get a mountable partition!!??? What happened?

fdisk didn't set partition structure up correctly, for red hat.

but that's the rub, when you tell it to default to 3, it had better default to 3 or it gets removed and the company will never sell me thier product again.

even though mandriva likes gui and graphic feature in console, they don't stop you from saying no to all of it when configuring.