As I'm booting from 2 disks hda=Windows and hdb=GNU/Linux, can I solicit views on what boot loaders are out there and which are suitable for this sort of configuration?
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On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Keith Watson wrote:
As I'm booting from 2 disks hda=Windows and hdb=GNU/Linux, can I solicit views on what boot loaders are out there and which are suitable for this sort of configuration?
Keith
Depends which Windows but I'd go for either lilo or grub for GPL'd loaders or BootMagic or SystemCommander if you want to go down the proprietary route.
Any other interesting boot loaders out there that I should know about?
Just nipped over to the GNU site and I see that GRUB is still at beta release. How stable is it at present? Anyone use it regularly?
From: John Woodard [mailto:mail@johnwoodard.co.uk] Sent: 16 July 2002 20:07
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Keith Watson wrote:
As I'm booting from 2 disks hda=Windows and hdb=GNU/Linux, can I solicit views on what boot loaders are out there and which are suitable for this sort of configuration?
Depends which Windows but I'd go for either lilo or grub for GPL'd loaders or BootMagic or SystemCommander if you want to go down the proprietary route.
Keith
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On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 8:09 pm, Keith Watson wrote:
Just nipped over to the GNU site and I see that GRUB is still at beta release. How stable is it at present? Anyone use it regularly?
Iirc Mandrake uses it as the defaut on a standard install. I used to use it but have reverted to lilo purely because I know the format of it's config file and am not that aufait with grub's.
Keith Watson kpwatson@luna.co.uk wrote:
Just nipped over to the GNU site and I see that GRUB is still at beta release. How stable is it at present? Anyone use it regularly?
I've been using grub for around a year now on various systems. Maybe more. It's not freaked out that I've seen yet. You don't have to keep rerunning it all the time either.
One other I've not seen mentioned yet is SBM, but I don't know what state that one is in and I've never used it.
MJR
MJ Ray wrote:
Keith Watson kpwatson@luna.co.uk wrote:
Just nipped over to the GNU site and I see that GRUB is still at beta release. How stable is it at present? Anyone use it regularly?
I've been using grub for around a year now on various systems. Maybe more. It's not freaked out that I've seen yet. You don't have to keep rerunning it all the time either.
Gentoo uses grub: no problems yet. Seems pretty robust, and a definite improvement over LILO.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:09:55PM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
Just nipped over to the GNU site and I see that GRUB is still at beta release. How stable is it at present? Anyone use it regularly?
Hmmmm, I can't see the mail i sent but if you have sorry about the repitition.
I installed Grub the other day and it didn't work, as in plain did not work and I then had to spend a while trying to fix my computer (and the new Debian install disks suck as lilo is not actually a binary but is a script that does stuff)
Anyhow I am going to procede with caution as It is nicer than lilo and if your distro sets it up for you even better but I have not had a chance to see why it didn't work for me. So make sure you have some kind of boot disk etc.
Adam
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