seth vidal wrote: > > out of curiosity is there anyone out there still USING lilo? > Yes, it is used quite extensivly here at Fermilab. For all our releases it is our default. Why? There are two main reasons. First is that all our users are used to it and all their old tricks work. For instance, to get into single user mode, you just type 'linux single', while for grub you have to edit your files, and put in 'single', which is a whole lot more painful. On the same point, grub is horrendously documented. If anything it is so over documented that you can't find what you are looking for. The documentation was written for a coder, not for your average user wanting to find out how to get into single user mode, or something like that. Second, is that there is no -R command. This might seem trivial, and I think it is, but the fact of the matter is, that there is lots of times, that I want to just boot into a partition once, and when I am in that partition I have no way to access the place where the grub file is. So after I'm done, I have to sit there and wait at the desk until it boots up. This is especially tricky when I'm not even at the machine in question, and I'm doing everything remotely. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
