On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 10:55, John Beamon wrote: > I may be a little behind the curve because I work primarily with 7.3 at > work and 8 at home. Still, the only preinstallation check I see > anywhere is "lilocheck", and grub has been the default bootloader > supported and installed since version 7.something. Why isn't there a > grubcheck yet, and how else would I implement this sort of feature in a > grub-based installation? lilocheck was somewhat dubious (in that it didn't really ever catch cases of things like lilo on partitions or the like or places where the boot drive order isn't what anaconda would expect). With GRUB, it's even harder to say. And then what do you do for boot loaders on other arches? Hence why it was deprecated in Red Hat Linux 7.2 with the introduction of GRUB and why I'm not planning to add it back. Cheers, Jeremy
