Red Hat 7.2

[John J. Cruz]

Thanks for your response.

jjc



"Brian J. Conway" wrote:

> > I'm beginning to dislike 7.2, too many GUIs and I don't know where all
> > the config files are.  Where is my lilo?
>
> I haven't used 7.2 myself, but I can tell you that LILO was replaced with
> GRUB (LILO should be somewhere on the CD).  It's much more featureful than
> LILO and has none of the limitations that LILO has or had.  I'd suggest
> putting in the effort to learn GRUB, it's really an excellent bootloader,
> is filesystem-aware, allows on-the-fly entry editing, and features a
> commandline.  Look for a menu.lst file in /boot or /boot/grub for some of
> the basics.
>
> Brian J. Conway
> bconway at wpi.edu
>
> "LINUX is obsolete"
>      - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992