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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