a few things

[Janina Sajka]

Grub is likely here to stay because it does more to paint a pretty screen, 
as far as I can tell.

The reason I did not find it very usable when I had grub on my Thinkpad is 
that one could only use arrows to identify the kernel wanted. Not very 
helpful without feedback.

Of course, lilo gets around this with the label=, and especially with the 
alias= commands.
 On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked
> around that issue by now, I believe.
> 
> However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check
> your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in
> your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it
> thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me!
> Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should
> work fine...I know nothing about grub.
> 

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