LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jan 23, 2008 18:35 UTC (Wed) by dlang (subscriber, #313)
Parent article: LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet)

I've been using lilo for a _long_ time and still install it on my systems for one very simple
reason

it's simple, and it's easy to identify what's happening with it. I've been bit several times
with grub doing what it thought I meant it to do.

simple is good (in this case rock-solid reliable, once you learn how to use it)

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LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jan 23, 2008 21:15 UTC (Wed) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Seconding that. LILO is my long-time favorite and I still don't see reasons to use GRUB
instead of it.
Although it would be even simpler and easier to allocate a special boot partition and store
boot image and initrd there in contiguously allocated blocks. Like you would see in AIX.