Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Wed, 06 Jul 2016, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> YMMV, I find it impenetrable.
I'm assuming you mean the generated configuration? It's literally just
some boilerplate for fancy splash screens, and then menu entries. Each
entry containing appropriate module loading, root configuration, kernel
and initrd loading, and then boot commands. All of which is generated
directly from /etc/grub.d/ and is pretty well documented[1].
It's the same set of commands you can use to load almost any kernel from
almost any device almost anywhere on a system (or even the network), so
it's pretty useful to learn if you maintain machines which occasionally
need to do weird things.
1: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Configuration.html
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