Subject: Re: GRUB, NTFS, and NetBSD
To: None <collver1@attbi.com>
From: Oleg Polyanski <Oleg.Polianski@team.telstraclear.co.nz>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/04/2002 14:48:04
collver1@attbi.com writes:
> > > Why use GRUB when you can use the NetBSD "mbr_bootsel"? I
> > > currently use this to dual boot one of my PCs with NetBSD and
> > > Win2k (Win2k using NTFS).
> >
> > Because GRUB is a lot more handy and has advanced features that
> > can help to bring your system up with the totally screwed
> > bootloader, while `mbr_bootsel' is more like a stub. There is
> > no need neither in any other tools nor even in operating system
> > at all to resurrect a dead box. GRUB has helped me lots of
> > times like no other tool ever did and it's very useful to have
> > it installed.
>
> What makes GRUB less likely to become screwed than
> j.random.bootloader?
Where did you read that?
Oleg