grub configuration tool
Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy
mbellamy at kc.rr.com
Thu Jun 20 16:18:36 CDT 2002
You're right, LILO is still an option at startup, but I went with GRUB
because I assumed that as the default choice there would be GUI support
for configuration. Anyway, I knew I could always fall back on LILO. I
don't trust my knowledge of GRUB enough to make changes to text files.
Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>I just installed RedHat 7.3 with GRUB as my boot loader. Problem is I
>>didn't know how to configure GRUB, so I just replaced it with LILO.
>>
>
>Um...why didn't you just choose LILO as the boot-loader in the first
>place? This was still an option on the 7.2 install, is 7.3 different?
>
>> Does anyone know of a GRUB configuration GUI tool? Is there any
>>significant differences between the two? This is just a test box, so
>>"working" is my only requirement, but it'd be good to know for future
>>reference.
>>
>
>The grub configuration file is pretty easy to understand...all the core
>components (kernel & ramdisk image to boot, and any kernel parameters)
>will be the same between lilo and grub, the only difference is the
>config file syntax to specify them. The biggest difference between the
>two (from my perspective) is grub knows how to read the filesystem on
>the HDD (so you change the config files and it just works), while lilo
>needs to store references to the file's absolute sectors, so you have to
>"re-run" lilo after making any change.
>
>Charles Steinkuehler
>charles at steinkuehler.net
>
>
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