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On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 02:55, Jan Wells wrote:
<snip>
> You're using grub.  Here, multi-boot is achieved via System Commander,
> with lilo residing under /boot on the second of my two SCSI drives.  The
> arrangement causes grief with kernel updates.  Or in my hands, it does.
>   How would gentoo react to being installed on the second drive, I
> wonder?  grub would need to be installed on the first partion of the
> first drive (along with three DOSs plus NT)?  I've become attached to my
> familiar System Commander, but maybe you would advise getting rid of it
> in favor of grub.

Grub is pretty awesome Jan.  I don't know too much about system commander,
but the great thing about grub is that you can change things on the fly.
For example you can create a new kernel and boot to it interactively instead
of adding it to the menu.  Perhaps you add a friends hard drive, and need to
boot off it for some obscure reason ... you can do it interactively from the
boot prompt.  Grub is good.  Check out this grub tutorial by Daniel Robbins:

http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytit
le/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument

You have to register with developerworks but it is worth it.  Of course
check out the GNU Grub home page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

and the original grub documentation:

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/

Don't switch to anything you're not comfortable with, but I highly recommend
grub.  By the way, this thread may not be appropriate for the developer
list, I think it belongs in gentoo-users.

meekrob