Boot manager

[jonathanm]

Just curious to see which boot managers people use, im using grub with windows, this is my first poll so it may not work!!

[Jaygo333]

Just curious to see which boot managers people use, im using grub with windows, this is my first poll so it may not work!!

I don't see the poll?
Where is it. Anyway, I use GRUB too.
At the moment its crashed and trying desperately to fix it but later on, I think I'll switch to GAG.

:h34r: Jaygo333 :h34r:

[jonathanm]

You were too quick, i hadnt submitted it yet

[Jaygo333]

You were too quick, i hadnt submitted it yet

I see it now. Sorry, thought it was old. At the New Posts page, your post is near the bottom and thought it was posted earlier.
Sorry for the mistake.;)

:h34r: Jaygo333 :h34r:

[carl13]

Is there any reason that people (who participated in this poll) use Grub over Lilo?

[jonathanm]

its probably because grub is ubuntu's default bootloader

[JAwuku]

How does the solitary Windows user in the poll above, boot Ubuntu via the Windows boot manager?

[Azion]

its probably because grub is ubuntu's default bootloader

True and it works

[jonathanm]

i dont boot ubuntu from windows bootloader, i boot windows ;)
grub loads first with ubuntu as default but i have a windows chainloader to boot windows. Maybe its not clear from the poll, i voted for both grub and windows

[SilentCacophony]

I voted grub, as it's what I currently use. I am using it because it's the ubuntu default, and it's quite flexible.

In the past, I used Ranish Partition Manager's (http://www.ranish.com/part/) bootloader. I used it to mutiboot several versions of Windows/DOS, but it can be used to boot linux in cunjuntion with a linux bootloader, such as grub or lilo, as long as the linux loader is installed to the specific partition that the linux installation is on (rather than the MBR.)

[Mighty Mik]

112.5%?!?!?!?!

[jonathanm]

i think its confused

[mstlyevil]

112.5%?!?!?!?!

It's a mutiple vote poll. If a user votes twice then both poll answers recieve the count and the percentage.

[briancurtin]

Is there any reason that people (who participated in this poll) use Grub over Lilo?
its default and it works.
it was default on suse and fedora core, as well as currently in ubuntu

i dont need a lot out of my bootloader. i dont dual boot, and i dont do anything special with booting, i just want it to load the proper kernel and start up. grub does it just fine for me

[carl13]

How does the solitary Windows user in the poll above, boot Ubuntu via the Windows boot manager?

Its been a whlie since I have used it but from what I remember you can dual boot os's with the windows bootloader.

[Ptero-4]

I use the Mac's built-in bootloader (Press Option at startup and you'll see a GUI OS selector).

[mimp]

I voted grub, as it's what I currently use. I am using it because it's the ubuntu default, and it's quite flexible.

In the past, I used Ranish Partition Manager's (http://www.ranish.com/part/) bootloader. I used it to mutiboot several versions of Windows/DOS, but it can be used to boot linux in cunjuntion with a linux bootloader, such as grub or lilo, as long as the linux loader is installed to the specific partition that the linux installation is on (rather than the MBR.)

Ooh, I'm using ranish at the mo - how do i tell the installer to put grub on my linux partition instead of the MBR? don't remember being given the option.
Also, does it matter if i use ext3 or ext2 to format my ubuntu partition as ranish only recognises ext2?
Once i've done it is booting just a matter of selecting the linux partition as bootable under ranish and pressing go?
Soz for all the questions..

[GarethMB]

Use grub because it came with it and it works. I've recently switched to initNG though.

[ssam]

yaboot, though i look forward to grub working on ppc