On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> >>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >>> anything other than grub these days?) >>> >> >> Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original >> Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. >> >> Why? Because learning grub would take time. Maybe not very much time, >> but it would take some. By contrast, although learning LILO took a very >> great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got >> back. Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot >> loader now takes, at most, a few minutes. >> >> But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving >> out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all. While I've still got a Debian >> on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big >> deal. In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn, >> probably have been superseded by something else. :-) >> >> >>> Regards >>> Dirk >>> >> >> > > > I started out with Lilo too. I can't recall why I switched but I did. > Grub is so much easier than Lilo. I have no regrets with switching and > would only use Lilo if it was all that was available. > > The biggest thing to learn is the way the drives are listed. It uses > (hd0,0) and such. It's really not that hard once you get how it does it. > Also, it is real easy to switch to a older kernel at the grub boot > screen. Just edit the boot line and let it rip. You can also edit other > options for the boot line but changing kernels is the big one for me. > > It's a thought.
I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :)
