[ltp] Starting over: A21e+port replicator

[Tod Harter]

On Monday 06 January 2003 03:49 am, Tino Keitel wrote:
> >
> > I'll go even further and state that LILO is one of the best boot mana=
gers
> > there is, period. It can boot all known OSes AFAIK. I wouldn't WANT
> > anything
>
> LILO can load a Linux kernel _or_ a boot sector of any device. Not
> more, not less. It doesn't cares about the OS if it is not a Linux
> kernel. GRUB can do much more for you here.
>
Which is exactly what any other boot manager can do... GRUB really goes w=
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beyond the traditional functionality of a boot loader, but unless you're=20
developing a new OS or something along those lines the only feature you'd=
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ever likely use would be the edit mode for boot entries, which is pretty=20
nice. So I guess in that sense GRUB is better than LILO. There was a time=
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when LILO had other deficiencies and GRUB was clearly the best choice, bu=
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seems they're pretty much on a par nowadays for ordinary use.

> Regards,
> Tino

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Tod G. Harter
Giant Electronic Brain