GUMBY GRUB

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Apr 3 19:19:21 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Res um 11:18:

> is there a trick to the old cp -a blah blah dirs /newdisk
> then install lilo from CD, to hard drive upgrades with grub... all we do
> with lilo work fine, but seeing as RH seem to not even offer you the
> choice to use the most commonly used bootloader around anymore, wonder what
> other ppls experiences have been in doing disk upgrades with grub, our
> first attempt failed dismally, gave up after 2 hours, when we use the lilo
> boxes ( RH9 as it was upgrades to 9 and never a clean install ) and
> slackware boxes we can do in 20 mins, and 18 of those 20 is the cp -a :)

Fedora still comes with lilo, while grub is default bootmanager. I last
installed Fedora in December and so I can not certain remember, but I
think the install routine allows you to decide whether to use grub or
lilo. At least lilo is installable afterwards.

Alexander


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