Re: GRUB (was: Re: Is there an SGI person in this list?)

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Joe Klemmer wrote:

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> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
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> > One of the things making use of XFS more difficult is that the
> > superior booter (GRUB) does not support XFS.  This makes harder the
> > task of a distribution vendor willing to move to XFS (he will have to
> > ensure /boot is using ext2 or Reiser).  It also makes life harder for
> > people willing to move to XFS but unwilling to downgrade to LILO.
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> 	In what way is GRUB superior to LILO?  Why would I want to switch
> to GRUB?

My understanding was that GRUB already understands the new partiton tables
that IA64 (comming soon to IA32) systems will be using. Again I can be
wrong on this.

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Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.