On 04/06/2005 07:48:07 AM, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
I've just been through a bit of a nightmare with grub changing and deleting things. Probably mostly my own fault and the result of my linux newbie fingers, but I certainly read every instruction.
So, someone suggested I "dump GRUB and use GAG" what do people think?
I'm currently using grub - but when I set up dual boot systems, I always use gag - reason being that gag can easily be written to a floppy and even to a CD (use the floppy image as the boot image for the CD)
GAG also I think is better for installers, the installer can have gag as a boot option right on the iso - and not install a boot loader to the mbr, but just leave the mbr alone by default.
Then use can install gag to mbr if they want - or instead install gag to floppy and just insert floppy when they want to boot the system.
With gag, you can also disable cdrom and floppy boot in the bios - and tell gag to boot from cdrom/floppy when you want to. Well, with floppy anyway - not positive about cdrom.
Anyway - gag is really sweet - I had a modified RULE install CD - one option on CD was to boot into slinky to install, second option was to boot into memtest86, third option was to boot into gag - which, being graphical, is easy to deal with when they need to recover a boot option because something ate the mbr.
I really like gag. But on pure linux systems, I just use grub.
-- Michael A. Peters http://mpeters.us/
