On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, WAYNE VAN LOON SR <w...@pacifier.com> wrote: > Now what is it that is so bad about LILO?
I personally switched to grub because it provided a shell that you could use at boot time to crawl the filesystem looking for kernels, initrds, etc. and construct a bootline that didn't exist in your configuration. This saved me from issues a number of times. (Granted, this was also back when I generally used custom-built kernels, so the potential for screwing up my lilo config was a lot higher than it is with the distro-supplied kernels.) Lilo may well support that sort of thing now, I have no idea. --Rogan > Wayne > > > On Thu, 6 May 2010, MJang wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 05:38 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >>> Another gripe I have with my Lucid Lynx dual boot install attempts is >>> that Grub uses the same words to describe both Ubuntu and Kubuntu! I >>> guessed, and was correct, that the first two (normal and failsafe) on >>> Grub's list were for the most recent install. They are followed by >>> memtest (two versions, I think), and then what looks exactly like the >>> first two lines. I'll discover if they really are for the first Ubuntu >>> install when I try again this evening. >>> >>> I assume there's a way to edit something to provide some additional >>> information, but I'll have to look into that later. >> >> Since Ubuntu now uses Grub 2.0, it's somewhat of a pain in the >> whatchamacallit. You'll need to edit files in the /etc/grub.d/ >> directory. One method is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#User-defined% >> 20Entries >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
