| Stephen Gran on 2 Feb 2008 17:56:56 -0800 |
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On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:51:11PM -0500, Bill Diehl said: > > GRUB is the standard boot loader on Linux, and it will boot other OSs > > as well. Xubuntu utilizes XFCE and may be what you want to use if you > > require a faster/leaner desktop experience... > > Yes, I just like System Commander. However, V-Com says that > Ubuntu does not allow control over where GRUB is placed and > therefore System Commander cannot manage the boot process. > One of the attractions to Linux is/was the ability to have more > control over my computer, rather than being forced to accept and > use whatever the big corporations wanted shove down end-users' > throats. I am sure that GRUB will start my other OSs just as well. It may be a failure in the ubuntu installer if it doesn't notice other OS's and offer to only install grub to the relevant partition instead of the MBR, but it is not a failure of grub. Grub is perfectly happy living on a partition instead of the MBR and being chainloaded from another bootloader. If you have a bootloader you like, keep it. Grub is quite nice for many things, but no need to ram things you don't want down your throat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | History is on our side (as long as we | | steve@lobefin.net | can control the historians). | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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