On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0800, McKiernan, John wrote: > Perhaps LILO is prefreed with the 2.0.8 version of systemconfigurator, > but one thing I found (through verbose logging) with 2.0.5 was that the > PREFERED variable was not being set AT ALL . I had to add inline text > in the script (to follow their usage) to add that variable and others. > > Our golden image client did not have LILO configured (GRUB only) , so > I had to configure it in rescue mode. On the whole, not the kind of > process we expected, but perhaps good knowledge to have and share.
On x86 given that there are only 2 choices, lilo is prefered if not
specified otherwise (PREFERRED just lets you override that.) What preferred
means is that it will be attempted first, if it passes, you are done. If it
fails, then the next one is tried.
-Sean
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