[PLUG] lilo or Grub?

[Chris Genly]

An odd difference that is sometimes important to me.  You can switch OSs
remotely with LILO.  I haven't found a way to do that in GRUB.

VNC in to my work machine.  While the work machine is in Linux

 lilo -R windows  
 reboot

The -R tells lilo to boot in to windows only once.  After that it
uses the default boot.  So with the above, the work machine reboots
in to windows.  Where VNC is again running.   When done with windows,
I just reboot and it comes back to Linux.

Can grub do this?

Chris



On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 19:34, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:
> > > I am doing a fresh install on a machine and setting up duel boot. Should I
> > > use lilo or grub and why? Thanks.
> 
> The answer depends on your machine and what you plan on doing with it; if
> you value flexibility or experimenting with different OSes and kernel
> images try grub:
> 
> "GRUB, unlike LILO, is able to read filesystems and recognize kernel
> images too. While LILO requires the physical location of the kernel on
> your drive, GRUB does not. Even the latest filesystem ReiserFS is
> supported. This means that you don't have to re-install GRUB every time
> you make a change to the config file or install a new kernel. If your BIOS
> supports LBA then there is also no problem reading beyond 1024 cylinders.
> There's some good support for network booting of diskless clients."
> 
> http://www.freeos.com/articles/3482/
> 
> Also info at:
> 
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/kohli.html
> 
> 
> --Tyler
> 
> 
>  On 24 Jul 2002, AthlonRob wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 18:25, Neil wrote:
> >
> > > I am doing a fresh install on a machine and setting up duel boot. Should I
> > > use lilo or grub and why? Thanks.
> >
> > vi or emacs?  pico or nano?  Chevy or Ford?  AMD or Intel?  :-)
> >
> > I like lilo.  It's tried and true.  However, I'd go with whatever the
> > distro you're installing defaults to.  It makes life easier down the
> > road.  They should both be able to dual boot your system.  I've done
> > multiboots with both.
> >
> > --
> > Rob
> > "Google is your friend"
> >
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