[Grml] Boot loaders
Michael Whapples
mwhapples at aim.com
Tue Sep 29 10:59:26 CEST 2009
Hello,
In the past I have always used lilo for my boot loader, partly due to
lilo being the first boot loader I learnt and so never really gave much
time to learn grub and partly due to having knowledge on how to get the
boot loader screen of lilo to beep when it appears (information on the
GRML wiki about accessibility).
Last night I came across one of the problems with lilo and I believe
grub might be able to solve this. The problem was that the GRML kernel I
am running (2.6.31-grml) was updated by apt in an upgrade. I forgot to
run lilo before rebooting and so my system became impossible to boot
from the HD. At some point in the past my BIOS settings had been lost
and so my CD drive is now on a lower priority than the HD for booting
(not being able to see, I can't use the BIOS by myself to correct the
BIOS boot order, so I had no way to correct the problem).
I believe grub allows the user to enter a command at the boot screen and
so boot any device (not quite sure where I have seen this but I think it
may even have been here).
My questions:
1. Am I right about grub being able to accept commands at the boot
screen allowing booting of anything (even if it isn't in the menu list)?
2. Is it possible to get the grub boot screen to beep like the lilo one
as described in the accessibility information on the GRML wiki?
3. Have you got any extra reasons you would suggest changing to grub
from lilo or is there a different boot manager you would suggest?
Michael Whapples
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