Mike, They don't care. The lists have been flooded with issues, bugzilla reports have been submitted at their request. They just don't care. I tried to help, but after being pushed around by their arrogance for too long, I have given up trying. If you want to maintain your sanity, use a simple PATA drive to boot from, and use the RAID for your /usr, /var and other directories. On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > Which of the 82 Grub bugs prevents it from being used for serious work? > > 1) That basic Bugzilla queries yield 82 Grub bugs versus 15 Lilo bugs is > illustrative of their relative levels of reliability. > > 2) The general flakiness of Grub makes it unusable for serious work. > One simply cannot afford plane tickets (or even trouble tickets) every > time Grub fails. Lilo is much more reliable than Grub. Grub may be > appropriate for a newbie on a home PC, but Grub does not replace Lilo. > > 3) One of the most serious ongoing problems with Grub has been the > flakiness of the software RAID support. This was first added in 0.90 > (July 2001) but has ever since been a constant source of Bugzilla > reports - reports which are not included in the list of 82 because they > were closed when the March 16th patch was written. Now maybe that patch > will solve all known problems, but I'm certainly not going to bet the > farm on it without months of testing. Why is Fedora betting its farm? > Lilo's RPM takes only 547k on the CD. > > 4) And this brings us again to the incredible lack of judgment > manifested by the Fedora Core team. First do no harm - if you don't > understand the issues relating to Lilo and Grub don't mess with them. > > --Mike Bird