[inbox] RE: lilo/grub

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 22 13:10:52 EST 2004


But if you were running a Mandrake system, you only have to stuff the CD in,
boot into rescue mode, fix the lilo.conf and run lilo.  It even has a menu to
make it easy for you :-)

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> You should look at what the problem is exactly, if you want to that is.  
> My office system is a mixture of IDE and SCSI, no problems. My servers 
> are all SCSI, no problems. Never had one really. One really cool feature 
> I like about GRUB is the devices.map file. In there you tell it what is 
> the first drive and so on like "(hd0)  /dev/sda" or "(hd0) /dev/hda" , 
> the first one  would make the SCSI sda in your system the first drive 
> and the second one would make your IDE hda your first drive, etc. and so 
> on. If your mixing drives like SCSI and IDE and didn't necessarily 
> install as such so that the system did the config for you, it was a real 
> pain with LILO, I found that is.
> Rerunning the lilo command is no biggie, unless you can mount the 
> system, then it's a HUGE biggie. With GRUB, any way I can boot the 
> machine to run vi, I can fix it.
> Some say tomato, some say tomata, lol
> 
> Greg Neumann wrote:
> 
> > Umm .... I've had nothing but trouble with grub and SCSI partitions. 
> > Maybe I'm too old and inflexible, but the configuration was very picky 
> > and arcane to my mind. I tried it w/ Mandrake and Gentoo and 
> > Slackware, and scrapped it as far too unfriendly and difficult to set 
> > up. Somehow, saving and exiting vim and typing "lilo -v" doesn't seem 
> > very hard at all. I have had XP pro booting as an option ... about 2 
> > years ago ... from lilo, and I didn't have any troubles. I usually 
> > have 3 kernels, plus at least one Windows partition going at any given 
> > moment. I suspect it's alot like which word processor you like. The 
> > one you learned first and most thoroughly is always the best ... 
> > simply because!
> > BIG CAVEAT!! I've ONLY used grub on pure SCSI systems, never IDE. As 
> > grub seems more "slanted" to IDE, it may be completely different for 
> > that.
> > Just an old Slackware (since '94!) curmuddgeon's gripe. No flame war 
> > intended! ;-) If lilo failed me and grub worked, I'd change in a 
> > heartbeat!
> >
> > -Greg
> >
> > TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, y'all
> >> So tell me whats the difference between Lilo and Grub?
> >> In other words why is Grub better?
> >>  
> >> Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)
> >>
> >> "Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com> wrote:
> >> Pete
> >> I did it and it workes. Thanks!
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of Cyber Source
> >> Sent: Sat 3/20/2004 1:31 PM
> >> To: nflug at nflug.org
> >> Subject: Re: lilo/grub
> >>
> >> GRUB Rocks!
> >> As root, type "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming you have and IDE hard 
> >> drive and want to have the boot loader on the MBR of the first drive, 
> >> that should do it. Then you can have a look at /boot/grub/grub.conf 
> >> to see what's in there. Once installed, if you change something, it's 
> >> just a matter of editing the conf file, no reinstall after, you can 
> >> then just comment out what you don't want etc.
> >> hint, to select a different boot level or whatever at boot time, hit 
> >> "e", then append the line of the boot with say, "single", then hit 
> >> "b" to boot it.
> >>
> >> Riga, Anthony wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I am running Redhat 9.0. using lilo. How do I uninstall lilo and 
> >>> install grub in order to boot? Can this be done. I want to try grub 
> >>> for a change..
> >>>
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