On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:05:53 -0500 (EST), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, steve szmidt wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:36 am, Eben King wrote:
> > >
> > > If the Fedora installer asks you, tell it to install _no_ bootloader,
> > > otherwise you'll have two config files (one in Fedora and one in Xandros),
> > > and the one in Xandros will know of it and XP and so will the one in
> > > Fedora.
> >
> > I don't agree with this. Because having it can help you later when you
> > want to look up something.
>
> It would only be accurate if you don't change anything, which for me is
> not accurate.
>
> > You will only have one bootloader in the bootsector anyway
> > so nothing bad comes out of it.
>
> True, but each OS will rewrite the single bootloader in accordance with
> its own config file. After one edit, the files will be out of sync with
> each other.
>
> > Again I recommend you stick with grub. Which would require you to
> > install Fedora last.
>
> I have no comment on grub, having never used it.
I have and found that it is quite easy to work with. lilo works quite well but
I find that I can screw it up easier than I can grub. I will forget to put some-
thing in and fire things up and it abends. Go back and look and find that
I missed or fatfingered something. Grub is so straight forward that there is
not that much to miss or fatfinger.
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