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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! |
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>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: |
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>>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use |
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>>> anything other than grub these days?) |
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>> Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original |
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>> Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. |
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>> Why? Because learning grub would take time. Maybe not very much time, |
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>> but it would take some. By contrast, although learning LILO took a very |
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>> great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got |
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>> back. Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot |
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>> loader now takes, at most, a few minutes. |
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>> But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving |
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>> out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all. While I've still got a Debian |
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>> on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big |
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>> deal. In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn, |
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>> probably have been superseded by something else. :-) |
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>>> Regards |
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>>> Dirk |
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> I started out with Lilo too. I can't recall why I switched but I did. |
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> Grub is so much easier than Lilo. I have no regrets with switching and |
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> would only use Lilo if it was all that was available. |
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> The biggest thing to learn is the way the drives are listed. It uses |
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> (hd0,0) and such. It's really not that hard once you get how it does it. |
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> Also, it is real easy to switch to a older kernel at the grub boot |
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> screen. Just edit the boot line and let it rip. You can also edit other |
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> options for the boot line but changing kernels is the big one for me. |
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> It's a thought. |
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I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points |
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to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever |
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have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :) |