On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:58, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hm - can you also *modify* the boot commands? Say, the boot command > in lilo.conf contains "vga=123" and now, for whatever reason, you > want "vga=ask" - what to do?
You pass vga=ask on the fly on the command line and this takes precedence over whatever is in lilo.conf. The same happens for the "root=", "initrd=", "ramdisk=", and other kernel parameters. As an example, consider the "root=" option: if you mistakenly put the wrong root= in lilo.conf, it would be impossible to recover without booting a live cd or some other kernel. Instead, you pass a different "root=" options on lilo command line (which passes the option to the kernel, of course) and you can boot without having to resort to external media. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
