On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 22:49 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > 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? Err > > > 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). FUD > > > > 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. You want to change the image, support software options that work, along with software options you need to have tested. > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.