[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[trey at fastmail.fm (Trey Sizemore)]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:07 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> You really want to switch to grub--especially if you are booting
> multiple OSes.  With grub, if you get it wrong you can still use the
> command line to figure it out at boot time.  (I did this just yesterday
> when we were having boot problems.)  With lilo any time you upgrade the
> kernel you have to rerun lilo.  So if you are using mandrake's lilo
> setup and you upgrade your SuSE kernel, how are you going to run
> mandrakes lilo install?  
> 
> Grub is just a simple text file.  You install it once and edit the file.
> No danger of rendering your system unbootable by forgetting to rerun it.
> And even if you mess up the config file, you can always edit it at boot
> time to get your system running again.
> 
> Michael

Sounds good.  I'll just need to play around and figure how to change the
boot loader to grub.