Brian May wrote: > > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? > Tom> Thanks! > > grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is > still manual, but I could be mistaken), but once installed you can > boot from any kernel on any partition. > > lilo on the other hand must be preconfigured with a list of blocks for > the kernels that it can boot. So don't forget to re-run lilo > after updating your kernel, or you want be able to boot. > > grub does not have this problem. > > grub also has its own way of naming hard disk partitions which you > could find confusing at first (first partition of first IDE drive is > (hd0,0). > -- Question for a grub-wise person:
I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, and I had no problem installing, none at all :-) However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the kernel when I boot: For instance, how do I start in single-user mode ? Do I have to predefine such things in menu.lst, or is there another way ? One that would not clutter the nice menu. Speaking of which, does anybody has handy a slice of a config file that makes those menus a bit nicer ? Thanks Romain
