Changing the Bootloader from GRUB to LILO

[Dan]

Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:36 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
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>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
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>>>> Can someone tell me how to change your boot loader from GRUB to LILO?
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>>>>         
>>> Good lord, why?  Grub is FAR more capable than LILO
>>>       
>> It's also a bit more complex to configure than Lilo.  I know that I 
>> personally prefer Lilo, where you can simply and easily edit its single 
>> configuration file by hand, using the familiar /dev/hda1 syntax to 
>> denote partitions.  I've never run into anything Lilo can't handle, so 
>> why work with complexity if you don't have to?
>>
>> *shrugs* Ah well.  I can see this guy's point, but I also know that 
>> there are no Lilo packages for FC5, hence removing Lilo's simplicity 
>> advantage.
>>
>> Clint Olson
>>
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>
> I agree, I also have preferred lilo.  I don't know why someone would
> make the move wholesale to Grub with such a massive gorilla as a RAID1
> bug in the room, doesn't make sense to me.  Lilo has always performed
> well with RAID0 and RAID1 combos and I've never been able to get grub to
> install correctly in those scenarios.
>
> I'm getting ready to find out wether FC5's grub will handle /boot RAID1
> and RAID0 on the remainder of the partitions.  FC3 did not perform in
> that regard.  I'm going to be mightily peeved if FC5 grub does not
> function via RAID.
>
> LX
>   
Well, for one, grub can easily handle fakeraid 0 and 1 in FC5. :)
-Dan