[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot
Trey Sizemore
trey at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 27 17:32:14 EST 2005
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:07 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> You really want to switch to grub--especially if you are booting
> multiple OSes. With grub, if you get it wrong you can still use the
> command line to figure it out at boot time. (I did this just yesterday
> when we were having boot problems.) With lilo any time you upgrade the
> kernel you have to rerun lilo. So if you are using mandrake's lilo
> setup and you upgrade your SuSE kernel, how are you going to run
> mandrakes lilo install?
>
> Grub is just a simple text file. You install it once and edit the file.
> No danger of rendering your system unbootable by forgetting to rerun it.
> And even if you mess up the config file, you can always edit it at boot
> time to get your system running again.
>
> Michael
Sounds good. I'll just need to play around and figure how to change the
boot loader to grub.
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