Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/06/15 16:55 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
jdd wrote:
2) lilo don't have the boot editor. It's very usefull for advanced users when changing some hardware and the computer don't boot anymore.
I consider myself an advanced user, but I have no idea what the "boot editor" is - is it a special grub feature?
Probably what he means is the Grub shell. If boot fails due to some system change the bootloader doesn't know about or understand, one can use the Grub shell to interactively locate & load a kernel & initrd to get booted, then via that virtually normal boot find and fix whatever went wrong, all without hunting down some media to perform a rescue boot, or needing to figure out why rescue and/or chroot doesn't work right.
I find the Grub shell indispensable, and never use any Grub scripts for anything at all any more. I usually use the shell to setup Grub whenever setup is necessary (on RAID systems so far I've been letting YaST2 do it).
I never learned anything about lilo except how difficult it can be compared to Grub, particularly if boot fails and lilo needs fixing.
Thanks for the explanation, Felix - very helpful actually. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.5°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org