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| From | Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Can LILO do this too? |
| Date | 2012-05-19 12:31 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <icy5oogmjc.fsf@home.home> (permalink) |
| References | <jp8ad8$eb4$1@dont-email.me> |
no.top.post@gmail.com writes: > Having grub setup to boot from a CompactFlash, > and then plugging eg. a USB disk before you boot, > means that the CF may change from being /dev/sdb, > to being /dev/sdc, > because the USB disk gets 'allocated in front of' > the CF -- apparently. > > With grub, you can just 'live edit' the immediately > visible menu, from sdb to sdc. > > Besides grub can access a device via its LABEL; > so it doesn't matter <where the device is located>. > > What do you do if you've got LILO instead?! You start using a piece of software that is pretty much obsolete. I see that someone restarted development in 2010. Given that the documentation is still not updated, I'd say it's dead. > How is it possible that a 'knl2.4 grub' can see > a knl2.4 originated ext2, but can't see a > knl2.6 originated ext2 ? Read the source or ask on the mailing list. > Since grub has got the various FS-drivers: ext2, ext3, js*, > one can understand that it couldn't read an ext3 if the > driver was missing; but aren't ALL ext2 equal, independant > of the kernel-version that created them? > What about different inode sizes, can grub handle all? Read the source or ask on the mailing list. > Of course, it's nice with grub: it shows you what IT can see, > because even before the OS has booted, grub can effectively > do a <fdisk -l>. But with LILO, you are in the dark. Which leaves one wondering why LILO in this day and age. > The <old>-grub has some quirks. > Is it worth getting grub-2 -- for distributions designed for LILO? Using old software when there is new and better is a fools game. > I've got a little-known-slak-based distribution CD, which allows > <editing of the knl, initrd, vga ..etc> before booting, which seems > nice; but I'm confused, because I thought this distribution used LILO. > What does the <syslinux> system do? http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project -- Dan Espen
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Can LILO do this too? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 11:17 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 12:31 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 17:41 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 14:36 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 18:58 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 15:39 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2012-05-19 13:59 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 14:59 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 17:27 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-20 18:57 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-05-20 18:50 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-21 21:53 +0000
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