On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:47:08PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Does GRUB work on anything other than i386? The Debian package is an i386 > only package. no > I believe that there is nothing directly equivalent to the -R option for > LILO, this allows you to configure lilo to boot a kernel once and then revert > to the default. So if you have remote control of the power (or can phone > someone who only knows enough to push reset) then you could put in a new > kernel last on the list and then run "lilo -R new-kernel ; reboot", if after > a few minutes your machine is not online again you can get reset pressed > which gets the old kernel again. I know I could do the same thing with grub > by editing menu.lst with sed, but this works AFTER the kernel has mounted > root (which may be too late). this is being discussed on the grub mailing list now! > Grub totally lacks serial console support!!! grub has serial console support > Also I have needs for three different types of setup, booting from hard > drive, and booting from two different versions of the Tulip driver (the grub > Tulip driver seems buggy - unlike the kernel drivers I can't have one driver grub uses the etherboot drivers, so grub supports whatever they do! > work with all my cards). Using grub alone would require three versions of > grub because the Debian package of grub doesn't allow easily specifying > different files to the grub installer (I suppose that I could force it if I > knew grub better, but for me it's easier to remove one and install another). > So on one machine I have LILO and two different alternating versions of grub. > > Does grub support XFS and JFS yet? yes the debian package of grub does the upstream release does not yet, and the patches have not been commited to cvs yet > I agree that grub is the way of the future, it has some great features. But > there are many very useful things that LILO does which grub can't do. Also > note that I did not try to make the above list comprehensive, I just listed > things as they came to mind. I agree, I prefer grub, but lilo still has its place, and I think should remain the default bootloader! -- Jason Thomas
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