Once upon a time, John Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> said: > Broken in the sense that a non expert isn't likely to recover from > common failure modes like installing or updating Windows and losing the > MBR. If you aren't doing RAID1 you have easy options, the best being to > install Grub into the root partition instead of the MBR or at least > being able to boot a rescue CD and just saying "grub-install /dev/hda". And how is that one bit different than if you use LILO? > Yes Grub has a command line mode. Big whoop, Yes, big whoop. Real servers are not always at hand and don't always have a rescue disk available. With LILO you are stuck if there is a problem during boot, while with GRUB you have a command line that you can try some things (and work around different types of issues). > > Fedora is not a "perpetual beta release". > > You must be using a different Fedora than I do. It ain't Rawhide or Sid, > but it certainly isn't what I'd call a production OS. It is exactly > what it is advertised as, a testbed. Which is quite different than a perpetual beta. If it were going to just be a perpetual beta, we'd just have rawhide, with no attempts to freeze and test for releases. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.