ext2->ext3

[Matthew Carpenter]

Perhaps it's not so important to anyone else, but if I need to boot a system which has a horked up bootloader and they can't find the emergency boot disk with all the nice partition information laid out for LILO (or grub), I can, with a minimum amount of information, boot that system with it's normal kernel/modules/etc...  I've not had such good luck with LILO.  (which makes GRUB a nice physical access hacking tool as well :)



begin  Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net>
(Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:04:20 -0500)

> I use both grub and lilo (different systems). both are nice. I really dont 
> care for one or the other. But I have to say that GRUB being able to 
> 'understand' a given filesystem is a misfeature. It doesn't buy you anything. 
> In fact, I've personally seen a machine that had a trashed fs on it that 
> freaked grub out. lilo didn't have any issue getting the machine to boot far 
> enough for a fsck. why? cause grub used the fs (which was toast) where lilo 
> knew where on disk to start reading and executing code


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