Can LILO do this too?

From	no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Can LILO do this too?
Date	2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<jp8ad8$eb4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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?!

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 ?

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?

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.

The <old>-grub has some quirks.
Is it worth getting grub-2 -- for distributions designed for LILO?

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?

== TIA

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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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