Thanks for the info, very useful. I will look into grub2, although grub legacy probably will solve most of my problems with lilo.
Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, Michael Schierl wrote: > Jason White wrote: > > >>> 1. Am I right about grub being able to accept commands at the boot >>> screen allowing booting of anything (even if it isn't in the menu list)? >>> >> yes. Also, grub doesn't need to overwrite the boot sector whenever you >> upgrade >> a kernel; all it needs to do is change a configuration file to refer to the >> new kernel image and init-rd image. >> > Grub also allows editing the configured commands and supports tab > completion of filenames, so that you don't have to type the whole > command line. Although I doubt this can be done when you cannot see the > text and the cursor on the screen. If you press 'c' from the menu you > can just enter your own (new) commands. Enter "boot" when you have > finished and the commands will be executed. > > Note that Grub (like LILO) can only boot from drives accessible by your > BIOS as disk drives; if you load it from a fixed drive it will neither > be able to load a kernel from a CD or an USB drive, nor will it boot > from CD or USB directly. Booting from floppy (or a second internal disk) > works, though. > > >> 2. Is it possible to get the grub boot screen to beep like the lilo one >> as described in the accessibility information on the GRML wiki? >> > In Grub legacy you can embed a Ctrl+G character into one of the menu > titles, which are shown at bootup automatically (if you put it before > the 50th or so character; long titles are truncated in the menu display). > > In Grub2 there is a "play" command in the configfile which claims to be > able to play beep sequences (of different length and pitch) defined in a > file on the PC speaker. I never tried that though, and I could not find > any documentation about the file format. > > >>> 3. Have you got any extra reasons you would suggest changing to grub >>> from lilo or is there a different boot manager you would suggest? >>> >> I would suggest going straight to Grub 2 and skipping grub-legacy if you can. >> Debian Sid has already moved to Grub 2, Ubuntu are heading in that direction >> and I expect other distributions to follow. Grub 1 hasn't been maintained for >> years, but only recently has Grub 2 matured to the point of being widely >> usable. >> > The main difference is that Grub1 is "rock stable" by now, and Grub2 > sometimes has its glitches. But maybe the glitches are all worked out by > now, I last looked at Grub2 1.96 which was release in February 2008. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
