Joep Blom wrote:
Francis,
Thanks. I've read that. But after 7 or 8 years using LILO with all the
problems around it, I switched 2 years ago to grub and decided to stick
to it. So my solution is to make a small (100 Mb) primary partition for
grub and do the rest with LVM as I have discovered the ease and
advantage of it after years of struggling with fdisk (DOS, W98, Linux)
and with the ntfsprogs suite it's easy to create XP partitions in an LV
for backups.
Joep
Even with LILO, it's easier to have a raw BIOS partition for /boot:
software raid4/5/6, pvmove, raid1, &tc. There are a lot of bad hacks
in lilo to support some of those things in some configurations, but
nothing clean. The most reliable way to bring things up is to install
grub or lilo in /boot (on [hs]da1) and possibly mirror the boot sector
and the boot partition to the second drive. However, on a
failed-drive, most motherboards can't reboot anyway so you're talking
manual intervention in either case. With a block-level mirror,
hopefully just yanking the first drive lets you boot off #2, and of
course once you hit initrd and raidstart, it handles the failed disk
gracefully, right? :)
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