On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:22, Troy Dawson wrote: > 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. but grubby! grubby is your friend. Just add a new section for it. > 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. > there is a -R command from the grub changelog from 7.3 add patch from GRUB mailing list from Keir Fraser to add a --once flag to savedefault function so that you can have the equivalent of lilo -R functionality (use 'savedefault --default=N --once' from the grub shell) -sv
