[GLLUG] Grub vs NTLDR

[Matt Graham]

On Monday 09 October 2006 13:53, after a long battle with technology, 
Alec Warner wrote:
> Benjamin Cathey wrote:
> > At ONE point I had a real problem with GRUB and XP (XP wouldn't
> > boot anymore.)  Anyway, the way I have it set up now my system uses
> > the NTLDR (had to copy blah blah you guys know the drill, right?) 
> > This seemed like a pain in the butt.
> >
> > Now I am considering reinstalling linux on this machine (it's a
> > Thinkpad T42, btw) and wanted some opinions on which way to go with
> > this.
> In the end I prefer grub because even if for some reason the defaults
> fail there is a friendly grub shell I can fall back to without
> rebooting or using a liveCD.  If I can't get it to boot from the grub
> shell then something is seriously wrong ;)

I have a T42p here (pretty similar to the T42) with the default 'DozeXP 
install and GRUB in the MBR.  'DozeXP has booted without problems the 2 
times I've had to use it since March.  Alec's comments about the GRUB 
shell are dead on; it's nice to have a bootloader that's partially 
competent for cases like what happened to me on a desktop system a 
while back:  Boot from an IDE CD-R*, GRUB sees the SATA disk as (hd2).  
Boot from the SATA disk, it's seen as (hd0).  (Grr, BIOSes.)

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