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Re: GRUB vs LILO



On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 03:47:16PM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net> writes:
> 
>     Patrick> I switched back to lilo after that.  Grub may well be
>     Patrick> technically superior, but if your system is having problems you
>     Patrick> do not want to have a bloody boot loader that doesn't offer an
>     Patrick> _easy_ emergency boot procedure.
> 
> Hm... not quite.  With Grub, you just type "e", find the line says
> /boot/vmlinuz... ro, append the "single" or "1" word to it, type enter, and
> then 'b' to boot the system.  A little bit more keystrokes than LILO, but no
> more difficult.  So all "boot prompt advice" still works.

But the easy way is to select the line below (recovery mode), by defautl
grub on debian (at least the version I have) made a shuch for each
kernel :)

/ Balp
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