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Re: Re: lilo entry for Knoppix on hard disk.



On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:57:17PM +0000, Capri Corny wrote:
>    >I am using grub4dos (grldr is a much improved variant of grub legacy)
>    >which also supports ntfs, pxe and cd boot with command line editing.
>    >The same binary can be used for multi boot from: dos, xp, win7, ...
>    >or simply from the mbr of the hdd. It has tons a very nice features as
>    graphical
>    >menus, auto-completion, iso/floppy/disk emulation, ramdisk boot,
>    chainload,
>    >and overall it is one of the best boot loader in my opinion. I like to
>    see grub4dos
>    >replace isolinux on the next Knoppix release as it could be used to
>    rescue
>    >systems already from the boot loader... (or at least have it as a boot
>    option from isolinux)
>    >cf: [1]http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/list
> 
>    That sounds very reasonable to me. One of the effects of constantly
>    switching between 4 bootloaders (syslinux, lilo, grub, grub2) is that I
>    don't get much insight and proficiency in any of them.

Well, we use 
isolinux for booting from CD/DVD
syslinux for booting from USB flashdisk
 where both share the exact same syntax in their configuration files,
 so it is actually very easy to create a bootable USB stick from the CD/DVD iso.
grub for the uncompressed harddisk installation
 because syslinux just supports FAT-filesystems, and we need dualboot capabilities
 for legacy operating systems.

Can grub4dos boot Linux reliably from DVD? I'm not quite sure. :-(

I have been thinking about extlinux for booting the harddisk-installed
version, so we could reuse the same config file again as syslinux and
isolinux, but then, we would be limited to installing Knoppix to an ext*
filesytem only.

> And if one single
>    distro should be geared towards multi-booting in diverse environments, I
>    guess that would be Knoppix. One direction to go, might be to create a
>    utility script/programs that assisted with different alternatives, using
>    grub4dos as the default.� For example, I don't know if it is still
>    possible, but in NT4 days I used to setup the NT bootloader to start up
>    Linux. A utility program could assist/take care of such issues.

I think it got more complicated to set up the Windows bootmenu for
booting Linux in "Windows 7". There is no textfile like boot.ini anymore
which can be edited with a simple text editor in order to extend the
menu.

Regards
-Klaus


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