[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

Jerald Sheets jsheets at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 20:36:58 EST 2005


I've got a tiny XP partition, Soalris 10, Fedora 3,
and in a few moments (gesturing wildly at screen)
Ubuntu.

Grub is the smack.

--J


--- Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

> Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
> > You really want to switch to grub--especially if
> you are booting
> > multiple OSes.
> 
> I would tend to agree.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Boot SuSE, chroot to mandrake, run lilo. :)
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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