Bootloaders

GRUB

Except where noted, this is for GRUB 2+

Console

# Turn on the pager in console mode
set pager=1
# See what the variables are
set
# Find devices available
ls

Grub grub.cfg creation

# RHEL-ish
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
# Deb-ish
update-grub

GRUB 1

• /boot/grub/grub.conf

LILO

The Linux Loader, which is reinstalled with each config change (by running lilo)

• /etc/lilo.conf

arg	desc
large-memory	allow ram disk above 15MB
lba32	use logical block addresses