On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:27:56 -0000 MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Alternatively, try grub. Beware, as the path specs are a little different.
Grub will definitely enable you to do what you want, though I still think it is possible with LILO too.
With LILO most of the inteligence is in the map installer, the 'lilo' command you run to set things up, and the code that actually does the booting is therefore very simplistic, but small and light and loads very fast.
By comparison, grub has a second stage loader that is able to read proper file systems rather than just follow a block list so it is very flexible and can cope with things getting changed, but does take noticably longer to load because the second stage loader is bigger.
Though I still have LILO for my main boot loader for the extra speed, I have a copy of grub on a floppy as a completely general purpose boot disk - just the job for booting a configuration that is otherwise broken.
Steve.