RE: [Xen-users] Confused about the xen livecd 3.0

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'm afraid this is most likely due to your system having a slightly 
> > flaky bios. grub tends to be less forgiving than isolinux, which is 
> > the more commonly used CD bootloader.  We might try and move later 
> > versions of the demo CD over to isolinux, but the grub 
> problems seem 
> > to only affect a small minority of users, and some of them reported 
> > success with a bios upgrade.
> 
> On a general note, taking a peek in the Grub sources and then 
> the ISOLINUX sources, it seems to me that the GRUB stuff is a 
> horrible mess and the software itself is a bug ridden beast.  
> Whereas ISOLINUX just works out of the box and the sources 
> are well-written.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using Grub on the demo CD?

syslinux and its derivatives didn't used to support the multiboot
standard (which xen requires - unless you use mbootpack), until we wrote
the support for it and submitted it upstream.

grub has always supported multiboot, and the iso support normally works
fine on most machines. Also, the grub command line is rather more
flexible and people are generally more familiar with using grub.

Ian

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