Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 09, 2006 06:08 PM
I find the article highly biassed towards grub.
The author (knowingly...? at the very least conveniently!) does mention that lilo has plain-text passwords, but he also neglects to say lilo does, unlike grub, have the possibility to only limit *editing* of the boot parameters. So you can *perfectly* boot the system with its default parameters without a password, but you do have to enter a password to change these parameters.
While grub may be superior in many ways, if you're going to diss lilo, at least stay objective (or informed).
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Grub bias
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 09, 2006 06:08 PMThe author (knowingly...? at the very least conveniently!) does mention that lilo has plain-text passwords, but he also neglects to say lilo does, unlike grub, have the possibility to only limit *editing* of the boot parameters. So you can *perfectly* boot the system with its default parameters without a password, but you do have to enter a password to change these parameters.
While grub may be superior in many ways, if you're going to diss lilo, at least stay objective (or informed).
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