grub configuration tool

Tia Haenni thaenni at kc.rr.com
Thu Jun 20 16:53:34 CDT 2002


I have a somewhat related question. I have RH 7.2 with grub dual booted with Windws 2kPro. How can 
I change which OS is the default?

Tia

On 6/20/2002 11:29 AM, Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy <mbellamy at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>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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