Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
> The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to
> updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside
> with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works with more
> than just Linux.
I guess I don't know what you mean by "update".
If I change the contents of grub.cfg, the effect is immediate:
the changes will be seen at the next boot. I don't do anything more.
> It also has a "rescue shell" that I've never been able to do
> anything useful with. When grub fails, I boot from a rescue cd
> instead. That way I get a real working environment.
Horses for courses.
Cheers,
David.
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