Re: [expert] LILO v GrUB

[Avi Schwartz]

Let me add one more thing about Grub that many people are not aware of. 
 Grub has a shell-like interface which you can bring up when the Grub 
menu appears.  From this shell you can search for kernels on your 
drives, set the root partition and kernel to boot from and then boot 
into you new setup on the fly.  This means that even if you screw up 
that text file, you can still boot into your system without resorting 
to booting from a CD.

Avi

On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 13:55 America/Chicago, James Sparenberg 
wrote:

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:03, Felix Miata wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:

As for lilo and grub - I've never even tried grub, since lilo works
fine for me.
I use GrUB because of its simplicity. Configuring means simply 
editing a
text file. Nothing to run afterwards. This makes chroot on rescue 
boots
unnecessary, which makes explaining rescue over the phone or email 
much
easier.
Now that is the first real reason I've heard for the grub advantage 
(the
chroot part.)  hmmmmm.


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