Re: GRUB

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> Provide both, but FWIW I'm not at all in favour of ditching LILO.
> LILO is the accepted default, and grub will *not* boot my machine---I
> use a serial console, and grub has zero serial console support, last
> time I looked.

This needs to be fixed then. I will file a bug report. GRUB authors
are much in favour for such important features, I believe.

> A lot of the documentation out there deals primarily
> with LILO, and some of it other bootloaders not at all (cf the Kernel
> makefile, for example!).

Well, grub can chainload lilo of course... :P

> OTOH, LILO couldn't boot the HURD, last time I checked.

Correct.

Marcus
no sig, sorry