grub over lilo?

[Abzstrak]

I haven't used grub and really have no inclination to since my systems work fine, but I had someone ask me why the newer distros are using grub by default, and I didn't know what to tell him... told him its probably more user friendly to some people or something, but that I really dont know...


SO..... anyone know why? or is grub actually superior in any way?

 

[Tiger]

I don't think it's superior. Probably a push since the 1024 LILO thing went away.
The only difference I see is you don't have to re-run Grub after a config change, just edit the menu.conf file and go.
Mandrake gives you a choice of which one to install, either Grub or LILO.
I run Gentoo Linux and Grub is the default but could have installed LILO if I'd have been of a mind to do it.

 

[Nothinman]

Grub is superior. It understands filesystems so there's no need to update it when you change the config file like lilo, you can hit 'e' at the menu and edit the current selection even getting tab completion for filenames, if it can't find it's config file it drops you to a CLI so you can boot manually or point it to it's config file instead of giving you a very unhelpfull 'LI' prompt.