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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot?
From:       Per Jessen <per () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2009-06-15 16:33:27
Message-ID: h15t4n$es$1 () saturn ! local ! net
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Felix Miata wrote:

> On 2009/06/15 16:55 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
> 
>> jdd wrote:
> 
>>> 2) lilo don't have the boot editor. It's very usefull for advanced
>>> users when changing some hardware and the computer don't boot
>>> anymore.
> 
>> I consider myself an advanced user, but I have no idea what the "boot
>> editor" is - is it a special grub feature?
> 
> Probably what he means is the Grub shell. If boot fails due to some
> system change the bootloader doesn't know about or understand, one can
> use the Grub shell to interactively locate & load a kernel & initrd to
> get booted, then via that virtually normal boot find and fix whatever
> went wrong, all without hunting down some media to perform a rescue
> boot, or needing to figure out why rescue and/or chroot doesn't work
> right.
> 
> I find the Grub shell indispensable, and never use any Grub scripts
> for anything at all any more. I usually use the shell to setup Grub
> whenever setup is necessary (on RAID systems so far I've been letting
> YaST2 do it).
> 
> I never learned anything about lilo except how difficult it can be
> compared to Grub, particularly if boot fails and lilo needs fixing.

Thanks for the explanation, Felix - very helpful actually. 


/Per


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