Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

[Bill Carlson <wcarlson@vh.org>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Pigeon wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 
> And with the advantage of being able to read filesystems other than
> FAT16. My preferred method of booting used to be a weeny DOS partition
> with LOADLIN.EXE on it, until I discovered grub.
> 

Does grub have functionality similiar to lilo's "lilo -R <kernel>" yet?

For those that don't know, this specifies the kernel and parameters to use 
for the next boot ONLY, all before the machine is actually rebooted. The 
machine should (hopefully) boot without any user interaction and in the 
event something bonks, on reset will boot with the default 
kernel/parameters. This feature is dead necessary for those of us 
supporting machines that we have never actually physically touched.

Later,

Bill Carlson
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