On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 10:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen Powell composed on 2016-07-09 08:58 (UTC-0400): > >> As for features, LILO has all the features that I need. > > One feature it never acquired AFAIK, which Grub shares with Syslinux, is the > ability to edit the kernel cmdline at boot time, before kernel load. With > problematic hardware, problematic BIOS, and pre-release kernel and distro > versions, that ability is a big troubleshooting convenience. It's one of the > features that facilitated my decision to migrate from OS/2 to Linux as > primary OS.
Not true. I use the traditional text-mode interface of LILO (install=text). To supply kernel options during boot, press the Shift key (by itself) before the "delay" timer expires to get a boot prompt ("boot:"). Then type the label of the kernel you want followed by the desired boot parameters. For example, Linux single to boot the kernel in single-user mode. Or Linux forcepae to get a PAE-requiring kernel to boot on a Banias-class Pentium M or Celeron M processor, if you forgot to specify append="forcepae" in /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo. If you can't remember the names of your kernel labels, press the Tab key at a "boot:" prompt. LILO will display the names of your kernel labels followed by another "boot:" prompt. I've never used the menu-based interface of LILO, but I'm sure that there is a way to supply kernel options at boot time with the menu-based interface as well. See my LILO web page at http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/lilo.htm for more information. P.S. I used to use OS/2 as well. But I switched because OS/2, after Warp 4, was more or less abandoned by IBM. Besides, Linux is free. If I had known about Linux back then, I would probably have gone straight from DOS to Linux. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-