LILO or Death ! :-)

[Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:59 pm, gsc wrote:

> Lilo is so basic that you will never imagine that
> one day you do not have it, can you imagine a unix like without VI
> editor ? Hum ?!

GNU/Hurd. Ships with nano by default.  Much to my chagrin, the 
repository on alpha.gnu.org is somehow broken, so I can't even install 
vi/VIm!  So, there, not only can I imagine a unix-like system that 
doesn't ship with vi, but I have one installed.  For that matter, it 
doesn't include lilo, either, but one should expect that. :)

Honestly, I don't really miss lilo, as I've been using Grub for quite a 
while now, but I really do like lilo on my servers, primarily because 
of it's -R command to boot a specific image on the next boot only.  
Very useful for booting a new kernel on a remote system, in case it 
breaks.

Someone here mentioned using grub's "savedefault --onlyonce" 
option/command, but I haven't found a rendition of that that can be run 
from a command-line or script.  It seems it's primarily for use in 
grub.conf to remember the last system you booted into.


Gregory

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