[NTLUG:Discuss] multiple distros on one system

[Bug Hunter]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Lance Simmons wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:20:17PM -0600, GWH Technical Training wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> So far as I know, Lilo has no commandline.

  Well, Lilo does have a command line.  It isn't pretty, but you can
indeed change almost everything:

LILO: linux root=/dev/hda1 rw VARIABLE_VALUE_TO_BE_PASSED=3

  and so forth.  There is no help within LILO, generally, but it is also
fairly powerful.

  It still won't boot kernels on cylinders > 1024, but GRUB will.