[NTLUG:Discuss] multiple distros on one system

[Lance Simmons]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:20:17PM -0600, GWH Technical Training wrote:
> 
> GRUB, which was distributed with RH 7.2, does not require that you run
> any program in order to engage the changes.  It works a little
> different than LILO, but basically does the same thing. 

Not so. GRUB understands many different filesystems, and from the GRUB
commandline you can locate kernels and other important files wherever
they may be on any of your partitions. The GRUB commandline also has
many useful commands that can help you boot up machines that are
unfamiliar to you, or that are botched up in some way. Plus, as you say,
you never have to worry about whether you've remembered to run it.

So far as I know, Lilo has no commandline.

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Lance Simmons
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