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

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

Posted Jan 23, 2008 21:15 UTC (Wed) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
In reply to: LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet) by dlang
Parent article: LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (O'ReillyNet)

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.


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