[openbeos] Re: Stage 1 Bootloader

GRUB is nice because it has an interactive mode.

That is nice because if you are a Leenooks weenie, and have compiled a new
kernel, and it's jacked, you can still boot from the old one, assuming
of course you have backed the old one up.

For BeOS, this is a non issue, and GRUB already allows booting to BeOS
(I use it to triple boot BeOS, Linux, and Windows).

My point is, you only really need Grub for saving your ass from Linux.
It's completely unncessary if you are a BeOS only user.

Alan

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:27:31PM -0400, Andre' F. Braga wrote:
> "Axel D?rfler"  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > I am fine with that, get a life, kiddie.
> 
> Uh. I just don't understand why some people support GRUB as if it was the 
> Holy Grail made into bytes. GRUB depends on the BIOS. GRUB must be compiled 
> with support for a given filesystem. GRUB and LILO are both stupid.
> 
> ITOH, bootman is so amazingly close to perfection...
> 
> And the best free alternative to bootman, imo, is nuni 
> [http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuni/]. If not for using it as is (GPL), it's 
> small enough to provide us the required documentation to access the hard 
> drive, in real mode, without depending on the BIOS.
> 
> Good fishing ;D
> 
> 
> 
> meianoite
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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