21.12. Summary

This chapter has explained the purpose of boot loaders on a Linux system, and shown how to set up and configure the two most common loader—LILO and GRUB. After reading it you should know how to add an option to start a different operating system at boot time, or use a different Linux kernel. Because a mistake can render the system unbootable, you should also understand the risks involved in reconfiguring your boot loader.

Table 21.1. Module Configuration Options
File for device name mappingsWhen Get from GRUB is selected, the module will use the command grub –-device-map to obtain a list of BIOS disk numbers and their associated Linux device files. This works perfectly, but can be very slow on some systems. The alternative is to have the module read a file containing the disk mappings, usually found at /boot/grub/device.map. This is faster, but if a new hard disk is added to your system, it may not get added to this file depending on how often your Linux distribution updates it. This means that a new disk may not show up in the menus in this module.

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