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Why have GRUB and LILO stayed so popular across all major - nix distros distributions?
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∙ 13y ago
GRUB and LILO are easy to configure. With them, you can easily boot multiple operating systems from the same menu on the same computer. To triple boot OS/2, Windows 98, and Windows XP, each operating system needs it's own bootloader, and to manage them all, you need to either install a bootloader that can load them all (Smart Boot Manager, Gujin, GAG, etc...), or mess around with boot sectors. With LILO and GRUB, to boot a compatible *nix system, all it takes is editing a simple text file specifying what partition the operating system's kernel is on, and the name of the kernel, or just chainload to a disk or partition to handle the various Windoze flavors, or other proprietary bootloaders.
Short answer - because they work, and in the 'nix world if it ain't broke. . .
But the new kid on the block - Grub 2 - isn't just an incremental upgrade, quite different in several fundamental ways - most of them IMO improvements. Give a recent Debian-based distro (Ubuntu, Mint) a whirl to check it out and get yourself ready for the future!
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