What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:29 pm
What is your favorite boot loader? Do you use lilo, grub, or something else?
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:41 pm
On my GNU/Linux boes, it's definitely GRUB for me!
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:53 pm
GRUB...definitely better than boot.ini.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:58 pm
GRUB for x86/amd64, yaboot for ppc.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:23 pm
BootX , mr jobs made a great job of it
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:29 pm
A few years ago I would have said Lilo, just because it was so easy setup to dual boot XP and Linux when installed on the same drive, but now I just use grub.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:51 am
GRUB for me.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:30 am
I moved to GRUB about 4 years ago, and even then I thought I was a luddite in fear of new technology.
LILO was fine in it's day, but once you've learned GRUB, it really is a lot better (as long as it works on your system). Editing a config file and not having to remember to run /sbin/lilo is great. I also love being able to edit the configuration at boot time. It's dug me out of a hole more than once.
LILO was fine in it's day, but once you've learned GRUB, it really is a lot better (as long as it works on your system). Editing a config file and not having to remember to run /sbin/lilo is great. I also love being able to edit the configuration at boot time. It's dug me out of a hole more than once.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:20 pm
GRUB - the bootloader of the gods.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:36 pm
TBH, I'm always surprised when I discover someone prefers LILO, and am even more surprised when I discover a distro (ahem, slack, ahem) still uses it. Someone must know something I don't know.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:59 am
Lilo sucks. I honestly don't know why Pat hasn't switched Slackware to GRUB. Must be due to some deep-seated hatred for all things GNU.Snarkout wrote:TBH, I'm always surprised when I discover someone prefers LILO, and am even more surprised when I discover a distro (ahem, slack, ahem) still uses it. Someone must know something I don't know.
Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:33 am
Its not from Pat , http://www.slamd64.com/ , i used it for a while, its just slackware packages compiled for 64 bit. There was never a 2.4.x kernel though, because there were problem but overall its identical packages.Wally Balljacker wrote:Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:47 pm
Yeah, I know about Slamd64 and Bluewhite64. Neither distribute GNOME as far as I know, and neither have a coherent package manager or very large software repository, so I haven't bothered to try them.allix wrote:Its not from Pat , http://www.slamd64.com/ , i used it for a while, its just slackware packages compiled for 64 bit. There was never a 2.4.x kernel though, because there were problem but overall its identical packages.Wally Balljacker wrote:Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.
Re: What is your favorite boot loader?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:05 am
Grub for me.