Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:24:02 +1000
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Steinar Bang wrote:
>> >>>>>> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>> >
>> >>> Also, why is the bootloader default changing from Lilo to Grub?
[...]
>> Day to day, neither is that much easier than the other to use,
>> frankly.
[...]
> Thanks for all this feedback. I'm definitely getting a feel for grub
> and liking it more and more. It's cool how dpkg rebuilds the menu.lst
> file when you install a new kernel built using kernel-package. It even
> adds a "SAFE" single-user mode boot entry for each kernel.
*nod* I like the 'update-grub' script - which implements this - even if
it gets my naming scheme slightly wrong and occasionally disorders my
kernels.[1]
The support for more than two levels there is also nice, but...
...lilo, as shipped, does the same thing for two kernels using the
/vmlinuz, /vmliniz.olg symlinks. So, I can't recommend it on only that
front. :)
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] I use a '-machine' tag on the end, which it believes to have less
priority than a '-rc1-machine' tag, so 2.5.6-machine boots *after*
2.5.6-rc2-machine
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