Hi, What does the savedefault option in grub do? If I have the fedora stuff after the line that ends the automatic kernel list for debian will update-grub mess with the fedora stuff?On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Shane wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:14:43PM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering what is the best boot loader to use grub or lilo? I > > It's really personal preference but I've found grub is much > more robust and configurable. It has direct FS knowledge > so doesn't care when the kernel moves on disk and is also > much better at recovery. For example, when you have a bad > config, you can always edit it right from the grub screens > or drop to a commandline console to manually bring up a > system. > > > hit the down errow and then enter nothing happens. This makes me believe > > that the boot loader is not working properly or I did not write the file > > properly. Here is what I have currently in my menu.lst file, I have > > Probably the latter. Unless you mean nothing at all > happens in which case I would suspect the bootloader but > likely grub is giving an error message which you could go > from. > > > title fedora core 6 > > root (hd0,2) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6spkxen root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet speaku$ > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6spkxen.img > > savedefault > > Hmm, looks ok to me provided the paths are correct and the > /boot/grub/default file exists. I wonder if savedefault > needs /boot/grub/default to exist on the Fedora partn as > well, doubt it though. > > S > >
