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What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by eddie » 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?

Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:41 pm

On my GNU/Linux boes, it's definitely GRUB for me!
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by KStorm » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:53 pm

GRUB...definitely better than boot.ini.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by Wally Balljacker » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:58 pm

GRUB for x86/amd64, yaboot for ppc.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by allix » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:23 pm

BootX , mr jobs made a great job of it
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by elgordo123 » 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.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by jamathis » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:51 am

GRUB for me.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by Gomer_X » 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.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by dann » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:20 pm

GRUB - the bootloader of the gods.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by snarkout » 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.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by Wally Balljacker » Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:59 am

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.
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. :lol: Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by allix » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:33 am

Wally Balljacker wrote:Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.
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.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by Wally Balljacker » Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:47 pm

allix wrote:
Wally Balljacker wrote:Until Pat brings back GNOME, switches to GRUB, and offers a 64-bit distribution, I'm sticking with Gentoo.
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.
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.
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Re: What is your favorite boot loader?

Post by kedardamle » Thu May 08, 2008 5:05 am

Grub for me.
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