FC4t2 no good without LILO

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Wed Apr 13 01:24:08 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:06 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 18:48 -0400, Graydon wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:23:59PM -0700, Dana Lacoste scripsit:
> > > This one's for Peter Jones.
> > > 
> > > He was whining about not having specific information
> > > and not willing to look in the archives.
> > > 
> > > Well, here it is.  You ignored it earlier, will you answer it now?
> > > 
> > > grub doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > lilo fixes problem.
> > 
> > That one got a long answer; one of the things in the answer is that,
> > sure, it boots, but it boots because lilo doesn't check that it knows
> > how to deal with the partition and will cheerfully do things that
> > involve high risks of data corruption and altered partition sizes.
> 
> Never seen it happen. I have used LILO since 1995 and never 
> have I seen it corrupt a drive or alter a partition.

Do you install lilo on 3 terabyte devices often?

-- 
        Peter




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