Allright: this is a quick poll:
do you prefer grub or lilo?
why?
if you prefer another, could you tell us what it is?

titanium_geek

grub, its cleaner and more reliable (no LILILILI)
you don't have to reinstall grub every time you recompile your kernel and the config file is much easyer to use. just my

nice poll Alison

If you look in the slack fourm, I wrote a very nice howto on how to remove lilo and install grub.

wow, you're like my age, now I feel less alone 8^)

Ehrm... You still need a boot loader. Even Windows has a boot loader, but it's not very interactive.

When the computer boots, the BIOS reads the first track on the hard disk (the Master Boot Record) and starts executing the code there. That code then loads the OS.

Regards
Martin

LILO for Slackware (because I'm too lazy to install grub).

Grub.....on everything else.

grub is really easy to install on slack....just read the howto in the slack fourm

Grub is the best. I always forget to run lilo:*aaa compiles new kernel>types reboot>smacks himself on the head during shutdown process when he realizes he didn't run lilo*. Plus I can choose the kernel at boot without it having ot be in the cfg file.

Oh! (slaps head for stupidity) you still need a boot loader? OH!!

*shakes head*

will go with grub then (install fest SOON!!) My curséd days will soon be over.

titanium_geek (Al)

Good ole lilo, and nothing else for me.

Sorry grubbers, but I have to stick with tried and true. It may not be elegant in all situations, but it ALWAYS works. When it's not perfect "out of the box" as it were, there's almost alway a link to a fix. Grub is elegant, but hasn't really been beaten to death like it's predecessor. I've tried it, but for my applications, it offers no real advantages.

Not that it's not great, just that LILO works for me.

Learned LILO, understand it's config and the options in it. Tried to switch a few months back but the config was just not that 'easy' when moving from LILO... Since they both have ~ the same abilities/limitations it's simply a matter of personal choice. And if you don't have one, and are simply looking for one (and have never had the need to modify either config file until now) then I'd say go for Grub. Why? Because it's popularity is growing quickly. The guru's will slowly turn towards it, and soon you'll find it very well supported. At least that's how I see it

Cool

none, i can't get any working
if tried grub and it just freezes and says
GRUB
an then stops
Lilo says
10101010101010101
1010101010101010101010
1010101010101010110
if anyone has had these problems, then help

This is so true!
It happened to me all the time... that's why i switched to GRUB.

Iv nearly always used GRUB, it was the first one i used and i understand more about how it works than i do LILO

My slackware box uses LILO though, only because (as with Whitehat) i cant bring myself to bother changing it

I hate both.. So I wiped out everything and only use linux now.....
But how the hal do I load linux now? There is no boot loader?

There is no other? on the poll no one has voted for other, I guess it's non-existent or not common.

titanium_geek