[NTLUG:Discuss] multiple distros on one system

[Chris Cox]

Lance Simmons wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:20:17PM -0600, GWH Technical Training wrote:
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>>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. 
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>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.
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I think he meant... it is also a boot loader... but your points about 
grub are good here.

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>So far as I know, Lilo has no commandline.
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Well... it has a command line in the sense that it allows for passing 
certain mods to the
kernels... and can prompt for VGA settings, etc.  But it's not some 
boot-prom like
interface... that is for sure.

Still sounds like a good presentation.....
Chris

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