Re: Considerations for lilo removal
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:54:52AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> William Pitcock wrote:
>>
>> It seems like moving to grub for everything may be a good choice on the
>> archs where lilo is used.
>>
> Lilo has one killer feature that is totally missing from GRUB - the -R
> option. It allows me to upgrade a kernel on remote servers, knowing that
> if the upgrade fails, I will get the original kernel after a few minutes
> without asking a local hand to push the reset button.
>
> Until Grub has something similar, removing Lilo entirely seems like a
> bad idea to me.
grub> savedefault --default=2 --once
Now, maybe debian just needs a nice wrapper around this.
Mike
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