text vs. graphical?

[phungilax]

Is there any real advantages to having a graphical boot prog such as graphical LILO. wouldn't that just slow down your boot time, like the windows logo at boot up??

[ken257]

lilo is text based grub is a very nice graphical boot manager. we are talking about a prog that is so small anyway so there is no slow down. actually i find grub to be faster because i can use the arrows to select the os and enter to boot it. with lilo you have to type out the name of the os you want to boot.

[phungilax]

yeah i have experience with text based boot managers and find grub very easy. i just never used a graphical version

[minoukat]

Originally posted by ken257
lilo is text based grub is a very nice graphical boot manager. we are talking about a prog that is so small anyway so there is no slow down. actually i find grub to be faster because i can use the arrows to select the os and enter to boot it. with lilo you have to type out the name of the os you want to boot.

Well, actually it depends on the distro and version you have. I have mandrake 8, and LILO looks better than Grub ! And is easier to use (actually, both are the same, just LILO looks better :rolleyes: )

[David]

I use LILO. Its text mode, but I can boot my default OS (Linux of course!!!) by pressing enter. I am also very familiar with the way LILO works and its config file.

[Hack]

Lilo won't slow your boot down one bit. All Lilo does is to hand off the correct OS to be booted. (Last check, I have 4 bootable partitions on my machine.) Lilo is nothing more than a boot manager and has nothing to do with booting Linux other than telling bios where to find the OS to boot.

As for text based versus graphical, check out www.13thfloor.at/Software/lilo-splash it'll tell you all you need to know about how to create your "very own" graphical lilo boot manager. In a nutshell, what you need is a vu-script for Gimp and a bit of setup in lilo.conf and your all set.

Be warned though!! You are playing with the boot sector(s) on your drive. As accidents can be somewhat fatal, be sure you have a lilo boot floppy for when you lock yourself out of the system, which if you're anything like me, you _will_ do...

Hack..

[parkan]

Originally posted by penguinfreak
I use LILO. Its text mode, but I can boot my default OS (Linux of course!!!) by pressing enter. I am also very familiar with the way LILO works and its config file.
It's an improtant factowr, however I am not familiar with either one so I use grub ;) !