Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May:
1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault
tolerant way.
2. LILO allows the "-R" option, where you select the next kernel to boot
from differently than the default kernel. This allows upgrading kernels
on remote computers with little risk of being locked out of the machine.
yap, those exact two features are what I aimed at (To Omer and Muli)
I don't know about the first one, but re "lilo -R" - grub has a
similar "fallback" option
Not even remotely comparable. If anything, fallback is more akin to
lilo's MD support. The reason this is not the same is that GRUB will
only take a fallback if it couldn't load the kernel or initrd image from
disk. Lilo, on the other hand, will take the fallback no matter what the
boot failure was, even if the kernel booted fine, but for one reason or
another did not load the network card driver. All you have to do is ask
the place that hosts the machine to press "Ctl+alt+del" for you.
No, the complex set of scripts is actually a bug in GRUB's menu system,
in which the "default" and "set default" options apply to both main menu
and submenus. This allows you to create a configuration that will only
boot once, by setting a main menu for which the always default is 1 and
the once default is 2, pointing 2 into a submenu, and there having the
only option is 1 with "save defaults". Like I said, I never bothered.
Shachar
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