[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Jan 27 20:20:53 EST 2005


Michael Hirsch wrote:

> You really want to switch to grub--especially if you are booting
> multiple OSes.

I would tend to agree.

> With grub, if you get it wrong you can still use the
> command line to figure it out at boot time.  (I did this just yesterday
> when we were having boot problems.)  With lilo any time you upgrade the
> kernel you have to rerun lilo.  So if you are using mandrake's lilo
> setup and you upgrade your SuSE kernel, how are you going to run
> mandrakes lilo install?

Boot SuSE, chroot to mandrake, run lilo. :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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