[PLUG] Re: grub question
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Tue Mar 23 22:37:01 UTC 2004
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Keith Morse wrote:
> No, just something better than your normal brain-dead boot loader.
> After dealing with Sparc architecture for couple of years and the
> accompanying OpenBoot boot manager anything Intel architecture seems
> positively brain dead. Grub is a nice step in the right direction, IMO.
Yeah, I used that a whole bunch. There was some good and some bad.
Don't some Macs use OpenBoot? They used to.
I just remember that awful Open Firmware song on the Sun site.
> But speaking to the original topic. One particular thing that I know
> LILO does but have not seen with GRUB is the ability to test boot on a
> new kernel and if that fails the subsequent reboot go back to the
> previous kernel.
As in lilo -R?
I kind of got the idea that Russell's setup did that... sorta. You
selected something and it only became the default if it boots
successfully. Is that right?
J.
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