Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com) [LWN.net]

Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)

Posted Mar 17, 2005 15:27 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289)
In reply to: Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com) by roskegg
Parent article: Grub From the Ground Up (Troubleshooters.com)

>"Grub was the first bootloader to make it easy to migrate your system from your old hard drive to a newer hard drive without going and doing a fresh install."

Does GRUB pre-date LILO, then? Why would you do a fresh install just to migrate from one hard drive to another?

See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

I've used that since the days when it was a mini-HOWTO on the old linuxdocs site.

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