[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[Michael Hirsch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Trey
> Sizemore
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:29 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] Getting Linux OS to boot
> 
> 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.

Generally it is something like grub-install /dev/hdb

Michael