Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
> On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >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.
> However the second line of grub.cfg says "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". If
> you do edit it, the changes will be overwritten the next time a
> debian upgrade automatically regenerates it. The only method for
> preserving your changes is to update the grub templates then run
> update-grub.
Well, if you want to use templates to build your grub.cfg,
then you have to build it with update-grub. That's hardly
surprising. If you roll your own, you don't.
The reason I wrote 'I don't know what you mean by "update"'
is because AIUI if you changed /etc/lilo.conf, you had/have to
remember to run /sbin/lilo to reinstall the loader again.
With grub, you don't. AFAICT that's the big selling feature
you mentioned above, was it not? If not, what was it, and what
has changed between grub 1 and 2?
Cheers,
David.
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