The big advantage of GRUB is that it will handle drive managers like EZ-Drive
(which I have to use on my Thinkpad because the HD is larger than the BIOS
can handle on its own); LILO won't even load.
Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
>If this is all you want, either one will work fine. GRUB has an advantage
>over LILO in that it is better at handling complicated boot setups (IMO),
>such as booting a FreeDOS chainloader from some obscure logical partition
>deep in the drive. OTOH, LILO may have an advantage in ease of setup.
>But really, if you're using LILO and your system boots, there isn't a need
>to switch.
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