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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 probably have been superseded by something else.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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Dale |
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:-) :-) |