July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 4: Boot Methods
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-R command-line
Set the default command for the boot loader the next time it executes. The
command executes once and then is removed by the boot loader. This option
typically is used in reboot scripts, just before calling shutdown -r.
-t Indicate that this is a test—do not really write a new boot sector or map file.
Can be used with -v to find out what lilo would do during a normal run.
-u device-name
Uninstall lilo by restoring the saved boot sector from /boot/boot.nnnn, after
validating it against a timestamp. device-name is the name of the device on
which LILO is installed, such as /dev/hda2.
-U device-name
Like -u, but do not check the timestamp.
-V Print the lilo version number.
GRUB: The Grand Unified Bootloader
Like LILO, the GRUB boot loader can load other operating systems in addition to
Linux. GRUB has become the default bootloader for many flavors of Linux. It was
written by Erich Boleyn to boot operating systems on PC-based hardware and is
now developed and maintained by the GNU project. GRUB was intended to boot
operating systems that conform to the Multiboot Specification, which was
designed to create one booting method that would work on any conforming PC-
based operating system. In addition to multiboot-conforming systems, GRUB can
boot directly
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