lilo vs grub

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Oct 21 13:52:31 UTC 2003


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I find these remarks quite extraordinary.
> I see new versions of LILO advertised almost weekly.
> I don't remember seeing a new version of grub for ages.
> I've seen many requests for grub to add the LILO feature
> allowing a one-time boot into a non-default kernel,
> but nothing has been done.
> I've seen many comments about grub documentation
> but nothing has been done.

grub has that feature, it's just poorly documented and complicated to use

grub> savedefault --default=# --once

makes # the default for the next boot only

later,
chris





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