On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mike Bird wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:03, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
Of course, in all this, keep your mind open. You might find that by
pointing out a specific, definable short coming of grub the developers
may choose to get grub up-to-snuff rather than include lilo.
Been there, done that. As have many others on this list and elsewhere.
Number one is lack of reliability, followed by lack of predictability
which is largely a consequence of lack of documentation.
Not to mention i've never met a person yet to get an emergency
reisntall of a server from rsync'd/tape backups with grub to boot properly
first go.. its sposed to be some crap like
chroot /mnt/blah
grub-install /dev/sda
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup
reboot
hmmmm a lot of extra crap to do there considering with lilo its
chroot /mnt/blah
lilo
reboot
and works first go everytime without fail!
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Cheers
Res