Re[1] Will upgrade to XP kill lilo and mandrake??

[- PSHunter]

Why not telling the 'reactiver' to put all the bootable
entries it finds in the boot menu ? The user would just
have to delete the entries he doesn't like...

If this works, the 'reactiver' could be improved by sorting
the boot menu entries so the entries that seem to be most
used appear on top of the menu.


> -------Message d'origine-------
> De : Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>
> Date : 02/04/2002 02:49:25
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:18:38AM +1000, Dan Washusen
wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 11:01, Wylie Edwards wrote:
> > > If I upgrade to xp and it kills the
> > > boot loader, how do I get it back?
> >
> > I think XP would kill lilo. But it's really easy to
get it back...
> >
> > [6 step process omitted]
>
> I find it really amusing/disturbing that such a common
problem
> has such a complicated solution.
>
> IMHO, the RH/Mandrake/whatever install CD should have an
option
> (alongside "Install", "Upgrade" and friends?)
to "reactivate"
> a linux distro.
>
> The main problem with this is, if there are multiple
distro's
> installed, you're not sure which grub or lilo
configuration
> to use. So, it can't be made completely "luser-proof" :(
> But, most lusers would only have 1 distro anyway...
>
> Perhaps the best solution is to make grub/lilo add a
timestamp
> inside their config files when the bootloader is
INSTALLED,
> and the auto-reinstaller looks for the config file with
the
> newest timestamp? (Obviously, this is different from the
mtime...
> we want the file that was USED for an installation last,
not UPDATED
> last)
>
> Unfortunately, this seems to be against grub philosophy...
> grub doesn't have a central config file for installing the
> first (and a half ;) stage bootloaders... nor to say which
> menulist, etc. it's using. More fundamentally, the grub
installer
> might not even have a way of writing to the file system
(and
> therefore, no way to write timestamps). It seems the
only way
> out of the mess is by grub telling some initscript (via
linux
> commandline? grub=(blah)/boot/menu.lst), and the
initscript can
> do it's timestamp magic.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Andrew
>
>
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