lilo vs grub

[Samuel Flory]

Mark Mielke wrote:
>> 
> The only argument in favour of lilo that I am forced to recognize, is
> the claim that grub does not yet work on all hardware. I was not aware
> of this.  This argument, assuming that it is easy to prove, may be
> enough to convince the people that made the decision to
> deprecate/obsolete lilo from Fedora Core.
> 
> The argument about having to install grub on multiple partitions with
> RAID-1 is just silly. You only need to do it once every time you
> upgrade grub. With lilo, you have to do it every single time you
> upgrade your kernel, and every time you upgrade lilo. "Suffer" is an
> exaggeration in the context of this argument.
>


   The point is that fedora out of the box doesn't install grub on both 
drives like it does with lilo.


> Your other arguments, I suspect are due to incomplete knowledge of grub,
> of which at least some of the blame could be put on the difficult to
> read/understand info pages that grub comes with.
> 

There are a number of issues that most lilo users have with grub:

1)Grub is not installed on both drives of an md mirror by default.

2)There is not an easy way on the command line to force the system to 
boot a certain way for a single boot.

3)There is no easy way to verify the syntax of a grub.conf file.



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