Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 18, 2006 03:42 PM
The thing to keep in mind is that LILO cannot read filesystems. It generates a hard-coded pointer to the hard-drive sector number or whatever. Grub on the other hand CAN read filesystems, so you just tell it the filename and it will find it even if the file moves. That's why under grub you don't need to mount all the partitions and you don't have to run a command to update anything. Grub will find the files when it boots up. This is the difference between Grub and Lilo. It is a difference in convenience and a difference in robustness. Grub is more convenient and more robust.
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Re:Don't Chainload Because!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 18, 2006 03:42 PM#