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In one sentence,  grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and 
lilo ROCKS...


Feizhou wrote:

> alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Quoting Feizhou <feizhou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Nothing beats grub's ability to let you roam around the filesystem 
>>> to find out just what kernels were installed and what their 
>>> configuration parameters were and then load a kernel and its 
>>> parameters on the spot.
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree that Grub is more featurefull boot loader with many nice 
>> options. However, for my servers I simply want them to boot without 
>> human intervention. Grub fails to do that more often than LILO.  Grub 
>> needs extra work to get it
>> right on my servers (that have mirrored disks).  I don't care about nice
>> graphical menu (there's nobody in server room to watch it).  I don't 
>> care about
>> Grub's CLI (there's nobody in server room in the middle of the night 
>> to use it).
>> I just want system to boot every time.
>
>
> Ha. Put multiple dhcp servers and tftp servers and the only thing that 
> will prevent pxegrub from booting your box will be a network problem 
> where the issue of whether box is up or not becomes moot. pxegrub will 
> overcome any bootloader issues unless of course you have faulty RAM/NIC.
>
>>
>> For dedicated Linux servers, LILO works perfectly, out of the box, no 
>> additional
>> work required.  Those boxes are simple to boot, no fancy stuff in 
>> boot loader
>> config files.  Grub is better when you have "complicated boot 
>> configuraion"
>> box.  And "complicated boot configuration" boxes are usually desktops 
>> and
>> laptops, especially those in hands of developers.
>
>
> I completely disagree with you here since I use grub over pxe to 
> install/boot my servers and avoid any local bootloading problems.
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