[CentOS] boot failure after install
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Sat Jul 2 14:07:16 UTC 2005
Peter Farrow wrote:
> In one sentence, grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and
> lilo ROCKS...
Yeah lilo rocks when it works.
but you cannot create a lilo floppy for a server whose kernel you have
no idea about nor does it give you a CLI that will allow you to find and
load a kernel from the box.
poorly documented? over complicated?
I beg to differ. Commands are so simple.
1) Switch to filesystem at this location and make it root.
root (device:part)
you can also use tab to do command completion so typing root ([tab]
will then give you the list of devices available and their part.
2) another command for loading a kernel image with parameters
kernel /path/to/image parameters
kernel (device:part)/path/to/image parameters
3) another command for loading an initrd image
initrd /path/to/initrdimage
initrd (device:path)/path/to/initrdimage
configuration for the boot menu is basically a grouping of the above
commands.
And for 2) and 3) you can also use tab for command completion to find
the kernel/initrd image files.
lilo is great when it works otherwise it is just a limited bootloader.
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