Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

["Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List!
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote:
>>
>>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use
>>> anything other than grub these days?)
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  I use LILO.  My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original
>> Linux installation, SuSE 5.3.
>>
>> Why?  Because learning grub would take time.  Maybe not very much time,
>> but it would take some.  By contrast, although learning LILO took a very
>> great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got
>> back.  Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot
>> loader now takes, at most, a few minutes.
>>
>> But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving
>> out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all.  While I've still got a Debian
>> on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big
>> deal.  In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn,
>> probably have been superseded by something else.  :-)
>>
>>
>>> Regards
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I started out with Lilo too. I can't recall why I switched but I did.
> Grub is so much easier than Lilo. I have no regrets with switching and
> would only use Lilo if it was all that was available.
>
> The biggest thing to learn is the way the drives are listed. It uses
> (hd0,0) and such. It's really not that hard once you get how it does it.
> Also, it is real easy to switch to a older kernel at the grub boot
> screen. Just edit the boot line and let it rip. You can also edit other
> options for the boot line but changing kernels is the big one for me.
>
> It's a thought.

I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points
to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever
have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :)