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Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?



Dnia poniedziałek, 7 lutego 2005 21:42, Bill Carlson napisał:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > And with the advantage of being able to read filesystems other than
> > FAT16. My preferred method of booting used to be a weeny DOS partition
> > with LOADLIN.EXE on it, until I discovered grub.
>
> Does grub have functionality similiar to lilo's "lilo -R <kernel>" yet?
>
> For those that don't know, this specifies the kernel and parameters to use
> for the next boot ONLY, all before the machine is actually rebooted. The
> machine should (hopefully) boot without any user interaction and in the
> event something bonks, on reset will boot with the default
> kernel/parameters. This feature is dead necessary for those of us
> supporting machines that we have never actually physically touched.

Well... sure it has. just look at grub-reboot script. it reboot's you into 
specified entry in menu.lst (menu.lst is a similar thing to lilo.conf) ONCE. 
and after this reboot, everything goes back to normal.

Regards.
-- 
Lech Karol Pawłaszek <ike>
"You will never see me fall from grace..." [KoRn]



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